We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and SonicWall NSv 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."Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"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."
"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."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The product blocks access when I visit unrecognized websites."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the control aspect of the solution."
"I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays."
"The solution can scale."
"Since SonicWall is a UTM, we have enabled all the features: antivirus, IPS, URL filtering, and content filtering. All of these features are working fine."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"User-friendly with good security and application control."
"The product helps improve our security."
"We purchased the AGSS Bundle (Advanced Gateway Security Suite) for the security services, such as antivirus, intrusion prevention system, and anti-spyware botnet GUI."
"One of the standout features of SonicWall is its simplicity in creating and managing rules."
"The security of this system is fantastic, including the IPS and IDS."
"The customization of firewall rules provides great value to our customers as it allows them to lock things up in the way that they desire. When it is used for internal access, with a VPN in place for remote workers, the firewalling services provided by Azure, such as the default services that can be turned on, are applied. However, the use of a software-based virtual firewall gives us greater flexibility in introducing security controls for customers who are publishing applications that are publicly accessible from the public cloud. This virtual firewall provides an additional layer of security and more extensive security control options to ensure the protection of our customers' valuable information and assets."
"The solution has no additional charges and no restrictions on the number of users."
"SonicWall NSV is easy to use, and you can use it to manage the logs easily."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"The user interface could be better."
"Vendor support needs improvement. The frequency of time and support should be increased."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"They are not ready for managed security services. Their Cloud GMS product is weak, barely out of beta (buggy)."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"The product must enable integration with endpoint protection tools."
"There are limitations to bandwidth management."
"I would like to see the reporting opened up and have several more opportunities for automatic reports."
"It has been brought to our attention by a few customers that they are dissatisfied with the fact that our virtualized service is only offered as a subscription option on the cloud. However, it is worth noting that many other similar services are also offered through a subscription model on the cloud and not through perpetual licensing. It is unclear why these customers would have an issue with this subscription service when so many others are utilizing similar methods."
"SonicWall NSV's SSL VPN could increase its number of users to 100-plus users."
"We face some challenges when we upgrade the solution."
"An area that could be improved is the export and import settings functionality."
"SonicWall NSV's initial setup is complicated and requires good knowledge."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while SonicWall NSv is ranked 35th in Firewalls with 7 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSv 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 NSv writes "Easy to use, stable, and the security features work well". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos UTM, whereas SonicWall NSv is most compared with Azure Firewall, SonicWall TZ and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our SonicWall NSa vs. SonicWall NSv report.
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