We compared SonicWall TZ and WatchGuard Firebox across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: SonicWall TZ is highly praised for its user-friendly interface, robust features, and cost-effectiveness. However, there are areas that need improvement such as reporting, licensing, scalability, and support. On the other hand, WatchGuard Firebox is commended for its comprehensive features, ease of use, and reasonable pricing. However, it also has areas that need improvement including the interface, web blocker feature, reporting, customer support, security, configuration options, scalability, and integration.
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"Ease of management and the VPN integration."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"The Dimension control, the one-spot reporting and control, has been nice. It's been easy to go in and make sure people are doing what they're supposed to be doing and that only the right stuff is getting in."
"The most valuable features of the WatchGuard Firebox are all the security and updated features. You are able to configure the solution from the cloud platform and the application and web interface are very nice."
"I could still keep the data rates really high, up near the two gigahertz data speeds, without compromise on the security perimeters being acted simultaneously."
"It has everything we need in terms of functionality."
"I have found the DNS Watch feature for intrusion and prevention response and APT Locker most valuable to me."
"The solution has a useful traffic monitor."
"The product's usability is good. It is straightforward and simple. One of the benefits is that it is easy to navigate and intuitive."
"It also provides us with layered security. It has onboard virus scanning features that allow it to scan before something gets to the host. It will also stop a person from going to a site that is known to be bad."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The VPN that is available in the new version is a bit bulky and slower in speed."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"Its reporting can be improved. Currently, we cannot directly get the user names. It only shows the IP, which makes it a bit confusing because we need to use the IP to find the user. If we could directly get the name of the user, it would be better."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"We have been facing issues with reporting."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"In terms of what needs to be improved, I would say better load balancing and data filtering."
"The solution can improve by adding a feature to tag a MAC address of a computer system in the policy and more IP configuration settings."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"The performance of the solution's processor needs to be faster."
"Websense is an application that monitors and filters internet traffic. Websense was derived from WatchGuard. But when you go to WatchGuard to actually implement that particular feature, you have to use some type of additional feature and you have to pay for it, unfortunately. I think it should be free or free in the WatchGuard box itself, as an option. It would be nice if they didn't charge us for that."
"WatchGuard Firebox could improve the speed of updates, such as new features or improvements. However, they are frequently improving the solution in many areas, such as geo-locations, definitions, and web blocking."
"Some of the configuration options are somewhat confusing."
"The UI and web view aren't nice."
"One other shortcoming is that there is no backup for it. We really haven't figured out how we might solve that problem. We may want to put a duplicate in... With WatchGuard, we just have the one box. If that were to fail, we'd probably be really hurting."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Meraki MX and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall TZ vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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