We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and SonicWall NSSP 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."It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It's very easy to configure."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"The scalability could be better."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"It is very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"It only has a single power interface, which has limitations in terms of high availability."
"We also need to increase the throughput because the other devices are slower. The throughput will become slow. Since we're using VoIP, it tends to affect the voice quality. Even if you're using a quality service, it tends to decrease."
"Having to deal with too many lower-level people in technical support means that it takes longer to resolve issues, so escalating support tickets should be faster."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"The product must enable integration with endpoint protection tools."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas SonicWall NSSP is most compared with . See our SonicWall NSSP vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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