We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and SonicWall NSV 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."With the pandemic, people began working from home. That was a pretty big move, having all our users working from a home. More capacity needed to be added to our remote VPN. ASA did this very well."
"It just works for us."
"I like that it is easy to change the settings."
"They are easy to maintain."
"For our very specific use case, for remote access for VPN, ASAs are very good."
"All the rules are secure and we haven't had a significant malware attack in the five years that we've been using ASA Firewall. It has been a tremendous improvement for our network. However, I can't quantify the benefits in monetary terms."
"Cybersecurity resilience has been paramount. Because there is a threat of losing everything if ransomware or another sort of attack were to happen, the cybersecurity resilience has been top-notch."
"Cisco's technical support is the best and that's why everybody implements their products."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"The solution integrates well with other Fortinet products."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is easy to use."
"It is very versatile."
"The dashboards are a good feature."
"FortiGate-VM's firewall is excellent."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"I find the simplicity to be most valuable."
"The customization of firewall rules provides great value to our customers as it allows them to lock things up in the way that they desire. When it is used for internal access, with a VPN in place for remote workers, the firewalling services provided by Azure, such as the default services that can be turned on, are applied. However, the use of a software-based virtual firewall gives us greater flexibility in introducing security controls for customers who are publishing applications that are publicly accessible from the public cloud. This virtual firewall provides an additional layer of security and more extensive security control options to ensure the protection of our customers' valuable information and assets."
"We purchased the AGSS Bundle (Advanced Gateway Security Suite) for the security services, such as antivirus, intrusion prevention system, and anti-spyware botnet GUI."
"An area for improvement is the graphical user interface. That is something that is coming up now. They could make the product more user-friendly. A better GUI is something that would make life much easier."
"The application detection feature of this solution could be improved as well as its integration with other solutions."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"We are replacing ASA with FTD which offers many new features not available using ASA."
"The maturity needs to be better."
"We are Cisco partners, and when we recommend Cisco FirePower to customers, they always think that FirePower is bad. For a single installation of FirePower, if I have to write about 18 tickets to Cisco, it's a big problem. There was an issue was related to Azure. We had Active Directory in Azure. The clients had to connect to FirePower through Azure. We had a lot of group policies. After two group policies, we had to make groups in Azure, and they had to sign in and sign back. It was a triple-layer authentication, and there was a big problem, so we didn't use it."
"It would be great to have all the data correlated to have an overview and one point of administration."
"The Firepower FTD code is missing some old ASA firewalls codes. It's a small thing. But Firepower software isn't missing things that are essential, anymore."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"FortiGate-VM could be improved by making it cloud-based. I'd like it to be a cloud-based management solution instead of just a dedicated management orchestration tool."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The key activation is very complicated at times."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"In terms of improvement, there have been some problems with the bandwidth of the security layer."
"The solution should provide more useful GUI features."
"The price is problematic."
"It has been brought to our attention by a few customers that they are dissatisfied with the fact that our virtualized service is only offered as a subscription option on the cloud. However, it is worth noting that many other similar services are also offered through a subscription model on the cloud and not through perpetual licensing. It is unclear why these customers would have an issue with this subscription service when so many others are utilizing similar methods."
"There are limitations to bandwidth management."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 48 reviews while SonicWall NSV is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 2 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.6, while SonicWall NSV is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "Flexible with good cloud management and a straightforward user interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSV writes "Reliable, easy to scale, and reasonably priced ". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway, whereas SonicWall NSV is most compared with Azure Firewall, SonicWall NSa and SonicWall TZ. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. SonicWall NSV report.
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