We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSA and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy for users to manage the entire solution from anywhere. The solution is very light, stable, and provides excellent real-time control. Many users have experienced stability issues with SonicWall NSa. They feel it can be a bit buggy, resulting in occasional freeze-ups and downtime. The solution does not scale easily.
"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."
"Good load balancing feature."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"The most valuable features are the VPN, SSL VPN, and IPSec VPN."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"I like that SonicWall NSa is a stable product. It's also a scalable product."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"What I like best about SonicWall NSa is the security it offers compared to other solutions in the market. Its reduction rate is also better than others."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"SonicWall has all the usual functions, like LAN configurations, security features, word filters, etc., but it also has the CFS agent, which isn't available in any other firewall. Reporting port support is also there."
"This solution is very user-friendly and even a non-professional can configure the policies."
"Sophos XG protects our network from advanced threats."
"The most valuable is the synchronized security between Sophos XG and Sophos endpoint because it provides a lot of visibility about unknown applications. The endpoint shares the information of unknown applications, and you can learn about those applications and create policies to allow or block those applications."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The solution was able to be integrated well with exciting hardware and software and in multiple business sectors."
"The solution's most valuable feature stems from its ability to protect our organization's web servers."
"I like the firewall, inbound, and outbound modules the most. The VPN feature also works well. It is very easy to configure rules in Sophos XG. We have got local service here in Zimbabwe from Sophos, which is something that I like a lot. We have got good local support, and they come on-site when we have any challenges. Sophos provides a lot of good training all around Zimbabwe. They are quite dominant here, similar to other solutions like Fortinet or WatchGuard."
"Using Sophos endpoint and the firewall, synchronized security is easy."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"The detection of malware can improve in SonicWall NSa."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"The ongoing service fees are high."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"The two main areas where this product needs improvement are routing and reporting."
"The first area that needs to be improved is customer support."
"I would like to have remote access to clients using a static IP for a certain period of time."
"The management console could be improved and the solution lacks good technical support."
"The solution could be improved if it offered more documentation or at least provided more information about the products themselves."
"Lacking network access control, user profiling and analytics dashboards."
"I would prefer if Sophos XG were cheaper. A lower price would benefit me as a system provider for the end customer. The cost of the license and renewal for all the software and devices is somewhat high."
"The support engineers of the product are not very tech-savvy, making it an area where improvements are required."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Untangle NG Firewall. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos XG report.
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