We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The solution can scale well."
"I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays."
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"The most valuable features to us are the security services which is a critical factor in our deployment. Today we need to have all the security services enabled because firewalls are not enough."
"SonicWall's technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It's a stable solution."
"The solution is stable."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"When it comes to security I think all of the features are currently open to improvement."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"The detection of malware can improve in SonicWall NSa."
"SonicWall NSa's reporting could be improved."
"Initially, it may be difficult for some people to learn and become acquainted with it."
"They are not ready for managed security services. Their Cloud GMS product is weak, barely out of beta (buggy)."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSv, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos UTM report.
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