We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSSP 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."User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"The solution is stable."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"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."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall NSSP is most compared with SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall NSSP vs. Sophos UTM report.
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