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 most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall TZ is the double authentication, where it asks for one password and again asks for a four-digit code, which changes every 30 seconds."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"Good VPN connection."
"Offers the right amount of control without being incredibly convoluted and frustrating."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
"Sometimes there is a glitch between the network connection. Last time, something happened on our IP phone, the SonicWall team did some updates to fix the issue. However, glitches happen very rarely. I did not experience any other types of problems."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"The small business line has less PPS throughput."
"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 user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st 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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