SonicWall TZ Valuable Features
The network security is great. The detection of malware is great, and it is very good at handling suspicious items via filtering.
We have access to in-depth reporting.
They're up to the mark and advanced in the market.
The solution, on a regular basis, has continuously added improvements to the product itself.
We have been happy with the level of integration.
The setup is very straightforward.
It has a very nice user interface that is quite easy.
View full review »SonicWall TZ is a very cost-effective solution that provides good security.
View full review »Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features.
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SonicWall TZ
March 2024
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Benjamin Nierman
President at BSD Consulting
What I find the most valuable is that SonicWall TZ is relatively easy to manage once you know. The newer versions do sandboxing, which is nice.
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Harry Srolovitz
Manager, Customer Security & Guidance at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The most valuable features are the ease of setup, ease of management, integration, the VPN integration andnet extender which is part of their remote access, and functionality. Overall, they've been very effective and it's an affordable product.
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Chetan Arvind Shah
Technical Support at Hind Industrial & Mercantile Corp Pvt Ltd
The most valuable feature of SonicWall TZ is the double authentication, where it asks for one password and again asks for a four-digit code, which changes every 30 seconds.
View full review »The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats. The solution's web content filter seems to be very good.
View full review »The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure.
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Puneet Dobhal
Director at VULPINE SOFTWARE PVT LTD
The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output.
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reviewer2031264
IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP. Overall, I would say it's a good solution for small enterprises.
View full review »SonicWall is perfectly okay for businesses that need to support around 100-150 users.
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Eric Barba
Senior Systems Analyst at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution has a lot of robust options and it's easy to use. NSM is a good feature, a single pane of glass security center where you can monitor SonicWall for different clients and troubleshoot without it requiring individual access. The product has good integration with their SMA solution, which we deployed for one of our financial firms, and we've also provided a remote access solution for people with PCs at home who want secure access. It offers good content filtering.
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SandeepKumar13
IT Manager at a legal firm with 11-50 employees
The web security and IPsec VPN are both valuable aspects of the solution.
The NAT policies and port forwarding are great.
We were initially actually using very basic features for my organization's requirements. It is a very simple model. There isn't much complexity to it.
It's been very easy to implement and deploy.
The solution is stable.
Technical support is perfect.
We've found the pricing to be pretty good overall.
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Mayur_Patel
Chief Commercial Officer at Mp Online
The product’s filtering and URL-blocking features are valuable. SD-WAN and VPN are also valuable features.
View full review »It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good.
It is an easy solution to set up.
It's a stable solution.
Technical support has been helpful.
The price is good.
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reviewer1506144
IT Infra Head at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a good solution with good features.
View full review »We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it.
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Darryll Bates
Senior Network Engineer at Matrix Solutions
From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment.
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Juan Larragueta
General Manager at Antea Consulting
The solution, as a firewall is very useful for any company trying to protect their premise through the internet.
The price of the solution is very reasonable.
The performance has been very good. Overall, the solution is quite stable.
We have found the solution to be scalable.
In general, it's quite a solid product.
The initial setup is quite simple.
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VINEETHBABU P
Senior Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
The site-to-site VPN connections, content filtering, and in our current remote working situation, SSL VPN remote desktop connectivity are the most valuable features.
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Enrique PerezAfonso
Business cybersecurity Specialist at Forlopd
The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models. The other thing is the actualization and upgrade politic are really strong, really good, very high quality. Lastly, the performance and the price are excellent.
I am really happy with the product. The new interface is really modern and really clear. The 7th generation is a really big improvement.
It has a very good design.
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Tharuka Fernando
Information Technology Executive at Pelemix Lanka
It is very user-friendly, and there is no problem in using its interface.
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Bob-Thomas
Virtual CIO/ CISO at Kyber Security
Once we moved the units up to the Gen 6 platform, they could support SSL-DPI. We are huge fans of the DPI. That piece is incredibly easy to implement. I'd say probably the most powerful thing about the solution is that coupled with the captured functionality.
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Keyur_Shah
Sr. Executive IT / DP at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at. The VPN feature is not something that I'm a great fan of, but I mean, it is not something that I would even complain about. Whatever is required for my organization, the TZ 400 has performed admirably.
View full review »The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access.
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Rajeshkumar Rajan
E-commerce Co-ordinator at First Group International
SonicWall TZ is very user-friendly and has network MAC binding. Additionally, the firewall works well.
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Balaji Desai
Head Information Technology at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation.
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Rajendra Burla
Manager IT/ System Administrator/ Network Administrator at Indsec
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.
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Riccardo Bondesan
Consultant at Software Solutions
Stability is the most valuable feature of the solution.
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reviewer1045617
Owner\Operator with 1-10 employees
The solution works very well.
They seem to be protecting themselves, or, at least, I assume they are, when they ask you to go online to enable the device.
The solution is easy to use. The actual setup is pretty easy.
I've found the technical support to be helpful. With all of the specifics, whether it's VPN stuff or the Analyzer products, et cetera, I'll always call for help.
I'm very comfortable with the product. I know enough to really get to where I need to be and then to get it right. For my customers, I can call and get help if I need to, and it's nice to have that option, however, I'm really quite comfortable overall with its functionality.
Easy to use GUI
VPN (Site-to-Site and Client-to-Site)
Gateway Security
Built in A/V options
Content Filtering
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reviewer1100799
Integration Engineer at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
It does what it says it is going to do.
View full review »Most of the features are useful. It is easy to configure and easy to troubleshoot.
I can see the utilization of different networks, and there are also App control features.
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ITSuperv67
IT Supervisor at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
We use the content filter quite a lot because it's an office setting. During working hours, we like to censor the sites users can visit so it increases productivity. Therefore, the content filter has been good for us.
We have been using the SSL VPN as well, because most of our people do travel. They go for rest and recuperation approximately every six weeks, and they are offsite for about 10 days. More often than not, they need to login, or get onto shared drives, to do some work.
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Antonio Galvao
CIO at ENGEREDE SOLUÇÕES EM TI
We like the central interface and we like the security features. Additionally, we use SonicWall with VPN connectivity and we have had no problems with SonicWall all these years.
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ShatrughanSingh
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Flexera
Because it is a software-developed feature in SonicWall, we just maintain the main firewall. With the main firewall routing there, we can do connectivity point-to-point. On the low bandwidth we can connect to all the branches from my corporate office.
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Vpcoffice0877
Vice President & Chief Information Officer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to install and maintain.
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Tammy Elliott
IT Manager at K-Vac Environmental Services, Inc.
It protects against intrusion while allowing needed access.
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
The most valuable features are security and technical support.
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ShaikSajid
Network & System Engineer at Construction Products Holding Co.
I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well.
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Rias Majeed
CISM at Exceed NetSec LLC
The most valuable features are the UTM, site-to-site VPN, and client-to-site VPN. The site-to-site VPN allows us to connect between the branches. We also use the global VPN client and the local VPN client.
I find most of the features are useful.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Configuration of firewall policies is very easy. I would say its interface gave me the ability to step into firewall and routing. Also I find using the SonicWALL for Site to Site VPN's is extremely easy, in particular, if you want to have VPN fail-over. HA is another good feature. Only because its the most competitive in the market as they give you an HA unit at a reduced cost.
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Kaushik Soni
Business development executive at ITCG Solutions Pvt Ltd
The solution provides good network security services.
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Jefferson Monfardini
IT Director at BRASP
The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control.
I like to security with integrated thread prevention and SD-WAN.
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MuraliGovindarajan
Senior Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention.
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reviewer1776429
Pre Sales Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I found many features in SonicWall TZ that are valuable. The NSM (Network Security Manager) is great when you have more than one firewall, e.g. two, three, five, etc., because it's a central place where you can configure the firewalls.
Even for users who only have one firewall, SonicWall TZ is great, because it's very easy to use. It's user-friendly. I have used other firewalls, and I've worked with Fortinet and Palo Alto, and if I compare their user interface with SonicWall TZ, this solution has an interface that's so much easier to use.
In this product, configuring the policies and everything else that needs to be configured is straightforward. You don't have to move through multiple pages and tabs. It's easy to configure and use.
The analytics feature of SonicWall TZ is also good, because users are able to see information on bandwidth utilization, including applications that are traversing the network.
I also like the Capture ATP (advanced threat protection) feature of this solution, because it shows the unknown files that have been detected in the network, how they were scanned, and what the results are. It's a very good feature.
I like the licensing scheme of SonicWall TZ. If you have high availability requirements, you don't need to buy two licenses. You just buy one. This is cost-effective for the customers. I also like the secure upgrade promotion, e.g. If you have an existing firewall from Cisco, Fortinet, or another competitor, SonicWall will give you a two-year license for the price of a one-year license.
SonicWall TZ has good features that I can really position to my customers, and that's how we're able to win new business.
I also like the form factor uniqueness of this product. You can use it even in an office with 10, 15 people. That's very great. That's a day one capability, and it's not licensed, e.g. it's something you can get out-of-the-box. I also believe that SonicWall TZ 570 and 670 series can accommodate SFP (small form-factor pluggable), and I find that very unique.
SonicWall TZ also has high availability, so it's a perfect solution.
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reviewer1442112
Product Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its user interface and simplicity are the most favorite parts for our clients. They find it stable and easy to use. Its performance is also good.
Our clients feel comfortable using SonicWall. It has all the facilities to block the threats.
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Pedro Escalona
Executive at BRIES COMSYS
We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use.
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Roy Haddad
Director at FOXMINDS Solutions LLC
The most valuable features have been content filtering, and the interface is easy to navigate and to use.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The price of the solution is great. It's a very cost-effective solution.
There are a lot of security features - including Capture Client, URL filtering, content filtering, application filtering, et cetera, and they are all very useful in terms of protecting our company.
The initial setup is easy.
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Patti Braun
WCOIL/IT Department at Lima Central Catholic
The most valuable features are for the protection of data, and IE Intrusion on the network.
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RENE MOLINA
CONSULTOR at COMOL S.R.L.
I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter.
View full review »The MSSP partnership program is valuable, but is still too expensive. The devices are not as good as others, but the price and business model are attractive.
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Odimas Nascimento
Diretor Comercial at a retailer with 1-10 employees
Content filtering and application rules are the most valuable features. It is also easy to configure.
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Umut Erol
Partner at 0ve1
The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator.
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Bruce Bower
President with 11-50 employees
It's sophisticated enough without breaking the bank.
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reviewer1625292
Creative Head/Director at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use.
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Hamza_Farhan
Professioan Services Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
- The management GUI is easy to configure, friendly to use, manage, and troubleshoot
- IPSec/SSL VPN is easy to configure
- It offers granular level of control for IPS and firewalls with advanced application control features
- You have one console to manage different aspect of the product
- It provides a high level of security
- It is easy to integrate into an existing network
- It provides a high level of throughput
In terms of features, I find that this product has good configurability. It also does its job really well.
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reviewer988362
SME, IT Consultant & Founder with 11-50 employees
SonicWall does have the best ease of use I've encountered in my limited experience. It's easy to set up.
View full review »I really don't know. I'm not really an IT person, per se, but I would say number one is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility. Those would be the top three.
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Khizar Iqbal
IT Engineer at Asia General Contracting
Most of the features are valuable. They give good protection to my network and support it. It has a good facility with side to side VPN and everything. I use it in all my offices.
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reviewer471591
IT Manager
The main features are support and security.
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Khaled Elbendary
General Manager at sysguard
I've found content censoring to be the most useful.
View full review »- All feautures related to deep packet inspection (IPS, application control, anti-malware, anti-spyware)
- Single Sign On
- Web content filter
- VPN
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reviewer1316163
DPO - Especialista em Proteção de Dados at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I like the site categorization and application controls, and I also like the anti-spam feature.
Easy to configure. Good for any organization.
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Munjal Bhalgama
Owner at IT CARE
We are familiar with the console and it is good to work with.
We are very happy with the throughput.
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reviewer1307946
Information Technology Network Support Specialist at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
The VPN connection is the most valuable feature for us. For me, it's all good - implementation and data tools are also good.
View full review »The affordability.
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SonicWall TZ
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SonicWall TZ. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.