The firewall feature is most valuable since my work is to analyze if there is any potential attack. SonicWall NSa gives the perfect analysis.

We are a service-based company and have implemented over 200 appliances for our customers.

The solution seems to help with any intrusion.

There is no Network Engineer on site, and there are too many piecemeal options to realize the full effect of the firewall's capabilities.

This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches.

I wouldn't say that. If it has no impact on them, it's doing its job correctly.

It has allowed us to work remotely when the order to shelter in place went into effect in March of this year due to COVID-19.

For the average SMB, this firewall does the job. Granular user controls, firewall and NAT rules that you would expect. Licensed features provide application control, content filtering, antivirus, and anti-malware all in a single appliance.  Be aware that their ATP is poorly implemented (stops downloads, forcing users to wait and click again).  Also be aware that the IPS/IDS, and Gateway Antivirus will do very little for modern threats such as ransomware.  We have had emotet trojans easily pass the firewall, connect to international foreign (and obviously) some kind of C&C without stopping it.  So little to no protection against modern threats, no HTTPS proxy as an option, poorly implemented ATP - it makes the case for a SonicWall very difficult to justify.  This vendor is frustratingly slow at adapting, evolving or improving their product.  They are unable to keep up with competition.

Geo-IP filtering has made a large impact on us and it is very important to us.

With Site-to-Site VPN we can connect several branch office that we have and with the routing options we can setup a VPN backup route using different ISPs, this is great when the ISP stability is not good. The AD integration is not the best but it works, thru that option we enhance the security of the device in terms of manageability. Deep Packet Inspection helps us to block undesired traffic like p2p activity even in ssl encrypted tunnels, but this is far from being easy to setup. Traffic Shaping options give us the ability to limit interfaces like the "guest wifi interface" however you can setup this per interface, not per VLAN, you have to create a firewall rule then apply "Bandwidth management rule".

My former company is a SonicWall distributor and I am looking to work with this solution in future projects.

With SonicWall we have more insight in the applications that users are using and what they are doing on the internet, so we can monitor better. It gives us better monitoring.

We now have more insight and information; what protocols and what websites users are trying to reach and what is blocked and what is not blocked, so we can better follow the tracks of the users.

SonicWall suits our business, also cost-wise, and commercial-wise. It is in a feasible range for our organization.

With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind.

The solution always responded very efficiently, delivering us:

• High productivity in our operation through access control capabilities;
• Security for our information with advanced deep inspection features, including SSL traffic.

This product handles what we're expecting in a box like this.

The ability to configure the appliances for efficient usage.

• Content filtering
• Anti-Spam
• URL blocking
• Bandwidth management
  

We are more aware of security issues since SonicWall can be configured to send e-mail alerts. Server-side Outlook rules and Exchange transport rules (more informational subject lines) can be helpful in sorting and making sense of the many alerts it can generate. We have also configured it to send logs to a syslog server. They also offer SonicWall Analyzer which can reportedly be very helpful when viewing logs but I have no experience with it.

The bandwidth consumption of the company has improved since we took control and restricted the music on YouTube being accessed on office computers. A lot of computers in the company were streaming, and we used the intelligent application control feature to control that.

It does what it says it will do; it works and it's pretty reliable.

It is a good product, but very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors. 

• Creating site to site VPN for HQ
• Branch via satellite connection for the branch

Improved our corporate security. we have bandwidth management configured, enable app control

In a K-12 environment, internet security is paramount and threats change quickly.

The main improvement for the organization is uptime and the ability to quickly affect security changes.

The second plus is the ability to improve throughput during peak traffic hours.

Security and Filtering.

Our old firewall was running as HA (High Availability) on two different but identical rack mounted servers. Moving to SonicWall allowed the company to move to one unit, yet accommodate more connections because it had sixteen ports and handled fail-over better than the old firewall solution.

We have had zero downtime since the deployment of NSA 4600 (HA).