We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM 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 solution is very, very easy to use."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"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."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Ease of management and the VPN integration."
"We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"Once it's configured properly, the solution is unbreakable."
"The network security is great."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The scalability is good."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The initial setup is complex."
"We have experienced some issues with SonicWall TZ and they are lacking some advanced features other vendors have."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"FortiGate has a client DNS in the firewall, but SonicWall doesn't have that. To create or configure a site-to-site VPN tunnel, we have to give a DNS name. Currently, we have to get the DNS name from a third party and then include it in SonicWall, whereas FortiGate has its own client DNS, so it provides a DNS name, and it does not require a third party. There should be a graphical option to view the network utilization and bandwidth usage."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"There can be an improvement in analysis and reporting. We need enhancement on the reporting side."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
"They could reduce the price."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos UTM report.
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