We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and Sophos XGS 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."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"The filtering is excellent."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches."
"The most valuable features are the VPN, SSL VPN, and IPSec VPN."
"The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well."
"We use SonicWall NSa for authenticating MAC (media access control) ID from the PC."
"Support has improved dramatically since their separation from Dell."
"It is very stable. I have not heard of any issue where clients would have to replace hardware. It's been really stable for a long while."
"The policies are the greatest feature. They allow us to configure granular control over our network traffic."
"The scalability of Sophos XGS is very good."
"Spam filtering is what I love most about XGS."
"XGS' most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"It's easy to deploy and connect."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"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."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
"The ongoing service fees are high."
"The user interface could be better."
"It doesn't require much improvement. The only improvement area is that cloud reporting, assessment reporting, and other reporting features should be available with the subscription. They should provide reporting features with the subscription base, which is currently not there. We bought the reporting tool, but there are some complications. They have made some changes to the application, and now the reporting management is completely on the cloud."
"The detection of malware can improve in SonicWall NSa."
"There are some bugs relating to the product that allow VPN users to bypass the firewall."
"The support team are helpful when you eventually get hold of them which takes a long time. They can improve how quickly you get technical support."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
"Sophos XGS could be improved by adding a built-in hyper-converged solution."
"It has recently started to suddenly block and crash."
"The price of Sophos XGS could improve, it is high."
"In the new release 19, there should be the implementation of a cloud service that you can use to set up the IPSec tunnels, and the SD-WAN from the WAN dashboard, and then you can push that configuration out to every firewall that you have."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos UTM, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos XGS report.
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