We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and SonicWall NSSP 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 product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"It's very simple to use and the support is great."
"We like the features, but the main thing is from a commercial and cost perspective it is very good."
"The firewall feature is most valuable since my work is to analyze if there is any potential attack. SonicWall NSa gives the perfect analysis."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"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."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
"Needs a more detailed reporting feature."
"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."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"The cost could be lower. There could also be more flexibility for smaller companies."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
"The only thing that we would want would be single-pane management, which it has, but the GMS is not very good. It's purely the management of multiple devices for multiple customers, that's the only thing that it's lacking."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while SonicWall NSSP 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 NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas SonicWall NSSP is most compared with . See our SonicWall NSSP vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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