We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The solution can scale well."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users."
"SonicWall TZ think it's a good, solid, and stable product."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"It is very stable with no issues. The firewall's been up for the past 35 days non-stop. It's performed great. It has performed as it should perform."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The stability could be a lot better."
"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."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"The interface and technical support are probably the two most important things that I would like SonicWall to improve."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
"The small business line has less PPS throughput."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
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SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 14th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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