We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"It offers application control features."
"Sangfor is a good solution that provides a WAF and firewall solution. Most other vendors, like Sophos and Fortinet and Cisco, only provide one solution. That's a valuable feature of Sangfor."
"In four steps one can configure the entire firewall."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"Good VPN connection."
"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."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"Once it's configured properly, the solution is unbreakable."
"They've become quite expensive."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
"An area for improvement would be the number of ports defined on the box. In the next release, I would like them to develop their provisioning stage of enrolling end devices."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"There is room for improvement in dependency on certain infrastructure, like the DNS dependency on the current DNS server that the company has. It should be standalone. It should not depend on any other DNS server."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"Sonic Analyzer could be improved. It's difficult to manage and not very intuitive."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and SonicWall NSa. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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