We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"We have found the central management (Smart Console) to be very helpful in managing all the firewalls and keeping the software/hotfix versions up to date."
"The Check Point architecture and packet are very good."
"It has allowed us to grow in a safe way and in accordance with our particular needs."
"The management of the firewall and advanced routing is great."
"Making configuring numerous layers of security policies easy to use was always one of the things I liked most about their firewall solution."
"The Check Point firewall features for Next Generation Firewalls are excellent."
"The user interface is very cool and easy to use."
"HTTP forwarding is something I haven't seen elsewhere."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the control aspect of the solution."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the firewalling, which is very good and the GUI which is very intuitive. It is easy to use, and provides great security."
"The most valuable features to us are the security services which is a critical factor in our deployment. Today we need to have all the security services enabled because firewalls are not enough."
"SonicWall has all the usual functions, like LAN configurations, security features, word filters, etc., but it also has the CFS agent, which isn't available in any other firewall. Reporting port support is also there."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"The firewall feature is most valuable since my work is to analyze if there is any potential attack. SonicWall NSa gives the perfect analysis."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The network automation and security automation could be better."
"It could be easier to access the installation of the Hostfix for VSX solutions. The CLI commands help us understand how virtual firewalls behave in terms of processor, memory, and other aspects. More graphic visualizations of CPUSE commands would be a welcome improvement, and Check Point could expand scripts to run within the solution for multiple tasks."
"The smart console is heavy."
"VMware is not supported by the platform."
"In terms of what could be improved, we have a cluster with two nodes and usually we have some problems when process gets really high and it has to choose which services it keeps going. I would like to have a better solution here, like if instead of just one we could use both at the same time. It would be good if it could work together. Then when one has a failure or something like that, the other one is there to transfer, to take all the services and keep working."
"Support cases have been generated several times, and it takes time for the case to be resolved."
"The current model is predominantly hardware appliance-based, which can incur substantial costs"
"Currently, upgrades are quite cumbersome."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"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."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"Overall, Im satisfied with SonicWall NSa, but it would be better if they could add a small terminal to each device. This would help me deal with certain issues by running a small bot onto any PC."
"Competitors provide SSL encryption licenses for free, whereas SonicWall only provides two licenses by default, but you have to pay for the rest of the licenses."
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
"SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 103 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 26 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while SonicWall NSa is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Robust control and security that enables a comprehensive application management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Easy to scale advanced threat protection solution with knowledgeable technical support, but has occasional bugs". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Azure Firewall and Sangfor NGAF, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos UTM. See our Check Point NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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