We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and Sophos UTM 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 most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"It performs very well."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"User-friendly with good security and application control."
"SonicWall NSA is easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to configure."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"With the deployment of the SonicWall NSA solution, we never suffered a problem due to invasion or contamination of any kind."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"This is a very stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The scalability is good."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"The scalability could be better."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"It needs more available central management."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The ongoing service fees are high."
"You can do zero-trust networking with them, but it's not easy."
"The reporting and monitoring are a bit complex and should be easier in SonicWall NSa because other firewalls I have experienced have been more simple, such as Palo Alto. We are able to receive a clear view of our network. As a general user with little experience, it would be difficult for them to handle."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"After-sales support and hands-on training facilities are not available in my country."
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
"Competitors provide SSL encryption licenses for free, whereas SonicWall only provides two licenses by default, but you have to pay for the rest of the licenses."
"The solution is not scalable."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"They could reduce the price."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"The support could be better."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos UTM report.
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