SonicWall TZ Room for Improvement
Though it is not as powerful and as good as the Palo Alto, Check Point, and Juniper firewalls, it is a small firewall and it is actually, highly acceptable for SMB customers where there is not much outflow of internet traffic and users are less in number. They can update or enhance the application signatures. They have that Capture ATP option, which is the sandboxing option there. Other than that, they can enhance the application signature, because, in SonicWall, the signatures of the application are not up-to-date. It is not a big database compared to Palo Alto, or Fortinet. It is slow and it takes time.
If you have created zones it automatically creates the access policy for allowing traffic from one zone to another zone. Similarly, if you create a site-to-site tunnel or a remote tunnel, in that case, it will automatically stage the access policy. However, there are options to disable that auto-creation, but if you compare this with the other firewalls, other firewalls don't have that. This is basically one thing that SonicWall TZ can work on so that an unnecessary access policy doesn't get generated in the firewall.
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Benjamin Nierman
President at BSD Consulting
It is a little difficult to use the DPI-SSL clients. I do not know if there is a way around that, but it is a little difficult to set them up and configure everything.
I have no notes for feature improvement.
The monitoring could be improved.
Pricing could be lowered slightly.
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We encounter issues while generating new reports. We have to buy an extra license for it. There could be a subscription management feature. Along with this, the cost of large-scale firewalls could be reduced. There needs to be flexibility in terms of hardware. We should be able to implement and install external software on hardware, such as VMware or HP servers, etc.
View full review »The solution doesn't have great scalability.
Getting support can be slow.
The proxy feature is not so good.
They need to work on word filtering and also the SD-WAN.
With FortiGate, they provide an NAC solution. They provide FortiClient, which is an advanced feature. SonicWall doesn't provide NAC solutions, and even their SSL VPN client is not advanced.
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reviewer2031264
IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
We are currently using a 54.1 version, which, when compared to other solutions like FortiGate or Check Point, needs to improve in many aspects. Even the new SonicWall 7.85 is not safe compared to FortiGate. There is a huge difference.
View full review »I would like SonicWall to act as a DNS server to host DNS zones. Our small business clients sometimes have a single DNS server on-premise. If that's the case, we're out of luck. It would be great if we could host DNS on the SonicWall, even as a secondary DNS.
View full review »The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another.
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Darryll Bates
Senior Network Engineer at Matrix Solutions
I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly.
View full review »The technical support has room for improvement. We have had some issues that have not been resolved.
SonicWall TZ can increase the number of built-in VPN connections. I would like to have 30 VPN connections in the next release.
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Chetan Arvind Shah
Technical Support at Hind Industrial & Mercantile Corp Pvt Ltd
The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets.
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Mayur_Patel
Chief Commercial Officer at InnovAge
The solution must provide more ports.
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Patti Braun
WCOIL/IT Department at Lima Central Catholic
I would like to see lower antivirus pricing. So far I haven't found any situation that I needed anything else added/included.
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Tammy Elliott
IT Manager at K-Vac Environmental Services, Inc.
It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for.
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NirmalUnagar
Security Analyst at CyberTalos
SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly.
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Munjal Bhalgama
Owner at IT CARE
The products' reporting can be improved. Additionally, the solution can include a way to find the information provided by users.
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Riccardo Bondesan
Consultant at Software Solutions
The cost of the solution has room for improvement.
View full review »The solution's pricing could be made cheaper.
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Kaushik Soni
Business development executive at ITCG Solutions Pvt Ltd
The solution's price could be better.
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