We performed a comparison between Sonicwall TZ and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy to manage the entire solution and it can be done anywhere. Users find it very light, stable, and it provides excellent real-time control. Users say SonicWall TZ struggles a bit with load balancing and data filtering, making it a slightly less desirable solution.
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"Most of the features are useful. It is easy to configure and easy to troubleshoot. I can see the utilization of different networks, and there are also App control features."
"The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access."
"The stability is very nice."
"The solution is stable."
"Ease of management and the VPN integration."
"The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control."
"The most valuable features are security and technical support."
"The web application firewall reverse proxy is very good."
"The solution has good performance and is easy to use."
"Compared to other firewalls that I had looked at, I thought Sophos was the better solution. It just seems to be easier to manage versus Cisco, Fortinet, or one of the other options I was looking at."
"I like the functionality and the user interface."
"This solution does everything and anything a firewall can do."
"We get good usage out of the features. It has enabled us to gain popularity. It has great features."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XG are the ease of management and good out-of-the-box reporting."
"We can configure rules with the user, traffic, etc., making it a very versatile solution for our network."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"We require centralized monitoring of the network features, which they have but they are not to the level that we require."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
"User interface could be improved."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"Sophos XG's web server protection and log viewer could improve. They should also introduce sandboxing."
"We recently did an upgrade on the Sophos XG firmware and we were surprised that after the upgrade, the automatic switch actually we were using did not work anymore."
"The reports could improve, they do not seem complete and more information could be added."
"Fortinet surpasses Sophos in terms of support, particularly with its comprehensive five-one feature console."
"Scalability could be improved. It could be better."
"The interface could be simplified and diagnostic system graphs improved."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered some tutorial videos to help new users learn the system quickly."
"I wish to see an antivirus feature added to the solution."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 25 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Highly acceptable on a small scale, straightforward out the box installation, with a good price point". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Fined tuned web proxy, feature rich, and beneficial VPN technology". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos XG report.
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