We performed a comparison between Sonicwall TZ and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy to manage the entire solution and it can be done anywhere. Users find it very light, stable, and it provides excellent real-time control. Users say SonicWall TZ struggles a bit with load balancing and data filtering, making it a slightly less desirable solution.
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Ease of management and the VPN integration."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"The solution is stable."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"It's a stable solution."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"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."
"There are many features. VPN, firewalling, and intrusion detection are the main features that are most useful for us at this time."
"The VPN access for users is also a great thing, especially nowadays when working from home."
"The scalability of Sophos XG is good."
"IPS works smoothly."
"There are many valuable features."
"Sophos began with a basic version and evolved into something more efficient in terms of performance."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"It could be made more user friendly."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"The VPN that is available in the new version is a bit bulky and slower in speed."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"The solution must provide more ports."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"Their tech support is not great."
"SD-WAN can be improved."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered some tutorial videos to help new users learn the system quickly."
"Sophos can definitely improve with the interoperability between solutions."
"Technical support can be slow to respond, which is something that should be improved."
"I am using the Azure Active Directory in my company and it was complicated to integrate this solution with Azure."
"The UI needs improvement because it can be a little weird at times."
"The SD-WAN could be improved."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Meraki MX and Sophos UTM. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos XG report.
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