SonicWall NSa Primary Use Case

SP
Internet Manager at MICROBLAU SL

The solution is a security system we install in our customer's office. It's a firewall. We have a control panel to manage and view some data and this control panel is in the cloud. However, the firewalls themselves are in the customer's office.

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AJ
IT Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Our company uses the solution as a firewall that provides different levels of protection for our office and factory. We currently have 500 users. 

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Suman Meena - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at Renaissance Services

My company uses SonicWall NSa as the primary firewall and the SonicWall TZ series as a backup firewall. I have no idea why the company needs to support two firewalls. Still, sometimes, SonicWall NSa has an issue, so the company removes the memory card from it, then replaces it with the memory card from the backup firewall.

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SonicWall NSa
April 2024
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MohammedMateen - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Transgulf Readymix

Our use cases for SonicWall NSa are the Global VPN and the SSL VPN, because nowadays, everyone prefers to work from home, and prefers to connect from mobile applications to our organization.

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RT
Technical Assistant (Senior) at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management

We use the solution on campus for students. We are not a non-profit organization working with financial constraints. We are an academic institute, so not very much security is required. We are required to provide real-time security.

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GK
Information Technology Team at Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd

I'm using SonicWall NSa as an external firewall.

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Nakul Chopra - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at IT Solution

I use SonicWall NSa for bandwidth monitoring and aggregation. I also use it to control browsing.

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AA
Group IT Manager at Direct Remit Limited

We use SonicWall NSa as a firewall to protect our branches. We use the solution for intrusion prevention systems (IPS), intrusion detection systems (IDS), and networking. We have VPN connections with our data center and other branches.

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PhosikaSithisane - PeerSpot reviewer
Power System Engineer at a retailer with 201-500 employees

The solution is deployed on-premises. We're using the latest version. 

There are around 3,000 users of this solution in my company.

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CR
Systems network admin at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution from our firewall endpoint VPN. It does have a spam filter, SSL, DPI, and numerous other security features. We've got the full license suite.

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JP
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd

We're using the solution as a gateway-level device.

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MH
IT Manager at Esnad

Our primary use case for SonicWall NSa is a firewall and for analytics. I use SonicWall NSa to follow the users. Some users manage to bypass the firewall sometimes and install certain software. I track all of this "bad" behavior and block it.

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AM
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is primarily used as a perimeter firewall for a gateway toward public internet traffic. Basically, it is a gateway between our internal network and public traffic.

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Francesco Berti - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at Tenax

We use the solution to provide edge security. We provide edge policies and protection. We use a very old version.

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SA
Manager of IT at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is used basically a parameter firewall and to secure the company network.

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TH
Cyber security consultant at a renewables & environment company with 201-500 employees

We use it to activate firewalls, VPN, and traffic analyzer.

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SK
Presales Consultant at General Technologies

SonicWall prevents and restricts access to websites for employees as well as anyone who comes into the office.

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VN
Cyber Security at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We have installed this firewall appliance across cloud and on-premises environments, our clients primarily use the VPN functionality.

If a customer wants to use the firewall, they have to pay more money for the cloud. By having a firewall solution, they can configure the VPN through the firewall, enabling them to avoid the high costs. Once you deploy the firewall in the cloud solution, then you will get protection for the gateway as well.

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DW
Senior System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

We use the product for a lot of things, so it's hard to talk about an individual use case.

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Arijit Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at Nous Infosystems

We use this solution for the VPN and to give permissions for on-premises access.

We're using the latest update.

The solution is deployed on-premises. There are two people using this solution in my organization.

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NH
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

SonicWall NSa can be used as a perimeter and ELAN firewall.

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TC
Manager at Smeja Enterprises

I walked into a job where we had an end of life ns2400 that was a mess. Coming from a Meraki environment there was a learning curve on how to navigate the sometimes overly complicated user interface. Tasks I should have been able to complete in 10-15 minutes took longer and I bounced between menus to hash out NAT rules and port forwarding.

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RS
Senior Network Administrator at cogniter

We are a software development company, and we have approximately 100 to 125 users working at the same time. This firewall is part of our security solution and we are planning to upgrade it to a TZ or another NSA model.

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KS
Senior Manager Information Technology Infrastructure at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product is the firewall that protects us from attacks from the internet.

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HH
IT Staff at Holy Name University

I am using SonicWall NSa as a firewall for many of its functionality, such as intrusion detection and traffic control.

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SB
Principal Associate - CloudOps at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for security. It's used as a firewall.

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JA
Information Security Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

When it comes to securing VLANs, the primary use case for SonicWall NSa is VPNs. 

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DW
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Mainly our customers use this solution as a general firewall. 

Currently, our most popular firewall is Fortinet FortiGate 40F. We do have all the way up to 100's, but most of our customers are small, medium-sized businesses.

We have a FortiAnalyzer that resides on Azure and we're getting a FortiManager because of the new capability to roll them out based on the serial number

With FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer, you have many more capabilities than you do with SonicWall.

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AM
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our primary use case for SonicWall NSa is as a public firewall, as an interface between our private network and the public network.

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SK
IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

We are using SonicWall NSA 2600 for firewall purposes. We have its latest version.

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HL
IT and Project Manager at Network Secure El Salvador

We use this firewall to protect our perimeter. We create NAT policies and have a DMZ set up.

It is also used to filter the internet for all of our users.

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AA
Director of IT at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for just securing our users and creating a LAN through VPN tunnels. We use it to provide remote access to a cloud service.

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SSL - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Firewall/VPN appliance for SMB clients. Firewall provides advanced threat protection to internal hosts. It also provides a secure mechanism for remote access.

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LV
IT Superintendent at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees

Primary use is Office 365, all our users have cloud-based email. The rest is business emails, business procurement, etc. And if users are on after hours and they want to see more, we allow it, but still, blocking is difficult on the SonicWall. It's not easy. We have about 300 users who go through the internet.

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RR
Chief Technology Officer (Diretor DE Tecnologia) at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution helps with VPN. 

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PH
IT architect, Integrator at Ujv

We are using SonicWall NSa as a network firewall and for segmentation on internal networks. We are using this firewall on the application level ID. We are using it for specific segmentation between production LANs and between technologies.

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BK
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd

SonicWall is for general security purposes.

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MV
Quality engineer of the 1st category at Modern Expo

We primarily use the solution just for IPsec tunnels. It's two routers between locations with IPsec tunnels, nothing more. We don't use their firewall capabilities.

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FS
Senior Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We are end users of this solution and I'm a senior systems administrator.

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AK
Cloud Technical Specialist at nimit tech

My primary use case is web filtering, VPN, and sometimes UTM. I can check a VPN for point-to-point connectivity with this solution.

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AL
President at The lerepco Group

Our primary use case is at the perimeter of all of our customer's sites with all of the security services turned on. That is anti-malware, anti-spyware, geo IP filtering is an important thing for us, web filtering and the Capture ATP. We are looking at preventing downloading of any virus-infected files.

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LW
Owner/Founder at team one consulting

We use SonicWall as the primary firewall for the internet connectivity of a multi-site educational organization. It is a private multi-site wide area network for an educational institution with around six sites. There are currently about 3000 users in this client's organization.

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ML
IT Head at a construction company with 51-200 employees

In the main office we have set up a SonicWall TZ device, and then from the branches, we have set up a lower branch model, the SonicWall, and then created site-to-site VPN. We then deployed the VoIP between those branches to the main office. We also deployed the firewall and the URL filtering between sites and the main office. So, we just enabled and created the different DMZ zones from the devices.

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BH
Senior Security Consultant. at Ingram Micro Inc.

The primary use cases for this solution are protection and for a VPN.

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SS
Network & System Engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Our use case is for firewall security. The solution is deployed on-premises.

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RV
Network Engineer at a maritime company with 201-500 employees

We have two SonicWalls in the High Availability setup with failover configuration.

We use it for the firewalling, for IPS protection and for VPN clients.

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Luke Wainwright - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Engineer at Networks Unlimited Africa

At the organization I used to work for, this solution was used as the primary perimeter firewall. We had 11 sites. Each site had a firewall that sat behind a router and did all the filtering.

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MV
Solutions Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our operation depends heavily on Internet access and we depend on a solution that can provide us with productivity and security for the continuity of our business.
With this need, we implemented a SonicWall NSA firewall to control all access to and from the Internet.

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TB
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are integrators, but for SonicWall, we use it for a specific project in industrial cybersecurity. It was for ransomware recovery and network restoration.

We did the firewall and the configuration for the ransomware prevention.

Our clients were using it to control the SCADA System in their industry.

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MN
Tech consultant at select softwares

I am a consultant. I work with a software dealer in the IT security business.

I deployed SonicWall for a customer just last month.

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PB
IT Security Analyst at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

We use SonicWall NSA as part of our overall security solution.

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GN
IT Administrator at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Our primary use case of NSa is for security. We are customers of SonicWall and I'm an IT administrator. 

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AL
NOC Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use SonicWall NSA for IDS, IPS, Intrusion detection, and intrusion protection.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution for network security in our branch office.

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MN
Owner at it logic

We are system integrators and we install products for our customers. It is mainly used in Universities, for corporate use, and in the government sector as a firewall.

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KE
Solutions Architect at Quartet Service Inc.

We are a managed service provider and SonicWall is our primary firewall. We offer this solution to customers as part of a rental program, as well as sell them outright.

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SA
Network Administrator at N S PHARMACY SDN.BHD.

The NSA 2400 is used as our edge device. We subscribe to two services.

  • Comprehensive Gateway Security Suite
  • Anti Spam Service
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JV
Director Comercial at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We use it to secure the perimeter of our company. We use all the integrated features of this Next-Generation Firewall. We are using NSA 3650.

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SP
Network Engineer at commit

We are a solution provider and SonicWall NSA is one of the firewalls that we implement for our clients. I have implemented it for many companies and currently, I have four or five clients that we are supporting.

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AM
Creative Head/Director at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

This solution is used as an IPsec tunnel and DDT.

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SP
Lead Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's for firewalls and content filtering. It performs pretty much faultlessly for us.

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VF
Consultant at Techmail

Our network has 150 users. We have two internet connections, an IPsec VPN, a DHCP server, a DMZ, WiFi, access controls and a load balancer, and two appliances with HA.

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IC
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Used as our Firewall and internet Gateway in our head office and branch office with site to site VPN configured

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JB
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We have been using the SonicWall NSA firewall to keep our network safe.

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AV
IT Services Coordinator with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case is as a corporate firewall, and to provide security for the network while allowing connectivity between multiple sites. We also use it as a VPN gateway for multiple users via SSL.

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BK
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd

We are a reseller who provides products for our customer.

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VK
CISO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I am using the SonicWall NSA as a perimeter firewall to control the traffic flowing in and out of my system. It is also a wireless gateway, it used for traffic shaping, mapping, and publishing certain web tables on the internet.

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Buyer's Guide
SonicWall NSa
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about SonicWall NSa. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
769,599 professionals have used our research since 2012.