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Sergi Pinto
Internet Manager at MICROBLAU SL
I'm also familiar with Fortinet. I find SonicWall more secure. It also offers better performance.
Previously, we installed a firewall directly with Linux and we configured it all at once. It was very manual.
View full review »I'm looking for a different solution so my company can switch to it from SonicWall NSa. I worked with CyberDome and then Fortinet.
Compared to SonicWall NSa, I noticed that the interface is easier than the SonicWall NSa interface. However, I'm describing non-enterprise solutions.
Support is also excellent versus the support SonicWall NSa provides. If you email or call the support team of Fortinet or CyberDome, you'll get a call. In contrast, the SonicWall NSa technical support team rarely calls, even when I could not configure the product, and my team could only see the logs. However, SonicWall NSa has strong endpoint visibility, which lets my company identify where the issue lies on the network or the infected system.
Fortinet offers a free VPN feature, while SonicWall NSa charges you for that.
View full review »I previously used different solutions, e.g. Sophos and Fortinet, but what I noticed is that I either couldn't find how to contact their technical support, or if I was able to call their technical support, I either get a busy tone, or it takes a long time to speak to someone. As for SonicWall support, I only had to wait 10 minutes to speak to someone, and if they accidentally drop my call, they'll immediately call me, no matter which part of the world I'm in, so I switched to SonicWall NSa.
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SonicWall NSa
March 2024
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GK1
Information Technology Team at Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd
My company used Check Point ten years ago, but its pricing was higher than SonicWall NSa. The cost to maintain Check Point was also higher, so now the company uses SonicWall NSa.
My company chose SonicWall NSa over other products because it was good. It was better than others.
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Aziz-Ahmed
Group IT Manager at Direct Remit Limited
Before SonicWall NSa, we previously used Cyberoam.
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reviewer1562688
Systems network admin at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
I personally previously used Cisco devices at another company, and therefore I have some experience with them.
We're currently migrating away from this solution at the moment. We do not like the way the device performs.
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
I previously used Sophos.
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Mohamed Hekal
IT Manager at Esnad
We previously ran MicroTech and FortiGate. We switched because we wanted to try something new. We change the technology we use each year.
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reviewer1120704
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
While there are a lot of options on the market, we only use SonicWall at this time. We have used Sophos in the past previously. We found that Sophos Firewall had more flexibility compared to SonicWall, especially in the configuration capabilities.
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Shahid Abbas
Manager of IT at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
In the past, I have also used Fortinet and FortiGate as well as Juniper. I have 19 years of experience with various solutions. I have used multiple devices including Cisco, Juniper, FortiGate, SonicWall, and others. Basically, FortiGate and SonicWall are more or less the same types of solution. However, the SonicWall is easier to install than FortiGate.
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reviewer1981041
Senior System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
I did not previously use a different solution. this product was in place when I arrived at the company.
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MuraliGovindarajan
Senior Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
We used Cisco a long time ago, but we moved to SonicWall almost eight years ago.
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Maksim Vedernikov
Quality engineer of the 1st category at Modern Expo
We've also worked with Palo Alto, Barracuda, and Sophos.
Palo Alto is more expensive to use and to scale. Sophos is very easy to set up. Barracuda also has NG capabilities, like SonicWall, and has the same limitations in terms of security policies. It also can take a bit longer to set up.
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Ravinder Singh
Senior Network Administrator at cogniter
We are planning to replace the current model with either a TZ or another NSA.
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Kelly Sietmann
Senior Manager Information Technology Infrastructure at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
At this site, SonicWall NSA is the only firewall that has been used.
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Harvey Halasan
IT Staff at Holy Name University
We did not use another firewall previously.
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reviewer1613847
Principal Associate - CloudOps at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I've also used Palo Alto. I used it at my previous organization.
View full review »Previously, I worked with PMG Firewall, but SonicWall has a higher level of compatibility, and the integration between the software and hardware gives us more speed in traffic and processing the data over the firewall.
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reviewer1120704
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were not using a different solution before. We have always been using SonicWall, just the older model, which was 5500. We upgraded to 5600.
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reviewer1384011
IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
I have used other solutions. Palo Alto and Sophos are good solutions. FortiGate is also good, and it allows you to see and manage everything from one control. Some of the features available in other solutions might not be available in SonicWall NSA, but it is fulfilling my requirements.
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Hector Lopez
IT and Project Manager at Network Secure El Salvador
I used to work with Check Point, and they are very good when it comes to application filtering.
View full review »No. We have always only deployed SonicWall.
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Leen Van Gent
IT Superintendent at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees
The main reason this was bought was it was cheap. We all know that Fortigate is far more expensive. But, then again, it's more like the Rolls-Royce of firewalls. And what you can do with it in hardware has no comparison with any of the software solutions on the market. Yes, everything performs, every firewall-type solution, whatever you want to use, does its job. But you want to have a management-free solution. If you look at Fortigate, no matter how you look at it, you know it works. With Unix boxes, you never know. It's a Unix system and, for whatever reason, it can stop working and you have to reboot the machine, which is not the most beneficial solution.
I've used Fortigates. Fortigates have no problems if you start adding a thousand users, depending on what kind of service provider you have. A big difference is that it's global censoring on the SonicWall. On the Fortigate you can censor per rule, and that's a big difference if you are in a multi-user environment where you have different types of actions.
At my current company, this was set up at the beginning, when the company started. They have never had a different solution. They have another location with Zyxel firewalls, which will also be replaced with Fortigates. They all perform. That's probably the best thing I can say about them. What we're going to implement now is a far broader solution with authentication and everything else. At this stage, that is not implemented on the SonicWall. My fear is that if we implemented that on the SonicWall, we would have more problems. It's really not that flexible.
My most important criteria when selecting a vendor are manageability and the features, and by features I mean complete management of the firewall.
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Petr HEZINA
IT architect, Integrator at Ujv
We have used other solutions such as pfSense and Linux native firewalls. I prefer SonicWall NSa but if you are going to use something for an enterprise you need another solution.
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reviewer1522938
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Currently, we are running Palo Alto, Check Point, and SonicWall.
Two or three months ago, we were working with Fortinet FortiGate. We have also used Vyatta.
View full review »We didn't have a solution in place previously.
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reviewer1518225
Director Comercial at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Customers usually had FortiGate or WatchGuard. Those are the two major brands that we have replaced with SonicWall.
SonicWall is being represented by us here in Panama. FortiGate is a very strong solution here in Panama, but we're trying to get them out of our way. Price is the biggest thing that we might use to replace them.
Support from the vendor is also a big thing here. WatchGuard has no representatives in Panama. They have no presence, so, it is very easy to replace them, but FortiGate is a difficult one to replace.
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reviewer1383846
IT Head at a construction company with 51-200 employees
We used Fortinet and Juniper NetScreen, but we already replaced them.
After seven years or five years, the performance degraded. Then we sourced from our local suppliers and got a recommendation from them and er also checked IT Central Station to compare each product.
View full review »I'm currently using Fortigate now. I switched companies and this company uses Fortigate.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
We are facing some issues with compatibility. We have moved to the latest version.
Previously, we were using another version and the 5000 model of NSA.
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Marcio Vieira
Solutions Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Before this solution, we used Microsoft Forefront TMG Server.
We migrated because the solution was proxy-based and did not have the features of NG firewalls.
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reviewer1126683
IT Security Analyst at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
I have not worked on any other platforms.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I have used SonicWall TZ previously.
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Manish Nalawade
Owner at it logic
Currently, I am using SonicWall and Wildcard.
View full review »We had a SonicWall 5060 PRO and upgraded to the SonicWall NSA 4500s. They are near EOL and another upgrade will soon be required.
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Shaik Parveez
Network Engineer at commit
I also have more than five years of experience with Fortinet FortiGate. I have worked with models such as the 30E, 50E, 60E, 100E, and 60D. I also have experience with the Meraki Firewall.
The VPN limitations are better with FortiGate. Even with the lower versions, such as the 30E, it supports 100 tunnels and 100 users. With SonicWall, you are limited to five IPSec VPN connections at one time.
FortiGate also supports DynDNS, which is an important feature for smaller companies.
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Presalesa8b7
Presales Manager
We switched because of stability issues when turning on the UTM feature.
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reviewer1646865
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The only other solution I have used is Cisco, although not as extensively as SonicWall NSa. This makes it difficult for me to compare solutions.
View full review »A Cisco ASA 5500 was used prior to the NSA 6600. We switched to a UTM to have a comprehensive security solution and one interface to manage it.
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Muhammed Yasir
Director Information Systems at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
This is our first time choosing a UTM.
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reviewer1447320
CISO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We also use the Cyberoam 320AI.
View full review »SonicWall NGFW has always provided the protection and uptime that we have needed. We never thought of switching to other vendors.
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SonicWall NSa
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SonicWall NSa. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.