We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and SonicWall NSa 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 features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The most valuable features are the web proxy for protection and web gateway for deployment."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"It's a very simple solution to manage."
"The thing that I like the most is that they're very willing to work with us to resolve issues that they haven't taken care of before in their product."
"The standard features, including the filtering, are quite good. All the basic features are pretty useful for us."
"FortiGate-VM's firewall is excellent."
"While the stability maybe isn't quite to the level of Cisco, it is a very cost-effective solution. It's cheap compared to Cisco."
"FortiGate is a nice and very good product."
"The basic firewall rules of the solution are great."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure."
"SonicWall provides endpoint security with advanced protection. Moreover, SonicWall includes access points and additional features."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"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."
"Technical support could be improved."
"When new versions are deployed they tend to be a little buggy, so they should be more fully tested before release."
"They could provide more integration options with different platforms."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"New versions are complicated with a big configuration."
"The solution is fairly complex."
"The user interface could be improved."
"We haven't attempted to scale the solution just yet. If we want to scale this solution we may have to look at other models. With certain requirements, we probably wouldn't be able to scale it so well as it is right now."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"They should consider upgrading the capabilities within the GUI."
"We have used other solutions such as pfSense and Linux native firewalls. I prefer SonicWall NSa but if you are going to use something for an enterprise you need another solution."
"The user interface could be better."
"It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable."
"SonicWall needs to work on SD-WAN."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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