We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate and SonicWall TZ based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, SonicWall TZ outperforms Fortinet FortiGate in several key areas, including more satisfaction with features, service, and support and fewer complaints on pricing.
"IPS and Snort are very important because they also differentiate Cisco from other vendors and competitors."
"The Adversity Malware Protection (AMP) feature is the most valuable. It is also very easy to use. Every technical user can operate this solution without any difficulty. The dashboard of Cisco Firepower has every tool that a security operator needs. You can find every resource that you need to operate through this dashboard."
"The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integrations and IPS throughput."
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"The content filtering is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The solution is stable."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The performance has been very good. Overall, the solution is quite stable."
"Ease of management and the VPN integration."
"It's been very easy to implement and deploy."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"We like the central interface and we like the security features. Additionally, we use SonicWall with VPN connectivity and we have had no problems with SonicWall all these years."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"The solution boasts good performance and is easy to use."
"We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use."
"The maturity needs to be better."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"The initial setup could be simplified, as it can be complex for new users."
"My team tells me that other solutions such as Fortinet and Palo Alto are easier to implement."
"There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. So, you need to ship it out elsewhere in order for you to store it. The only point of consideration is around that area, basically limited storage on the machine and appliance. Consider logging it elsewhere or pushing it out to a SIEM to get better controls and manipulation over the data to generate additional metrics and visibility."
"Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall can be more secure."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
"Cisco makes horrible UIs, so the interface is something that should be improved."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The scalability could be better."
"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."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"Sonic Analyzer could be improved. It's difficult to manage and not very intuitive."
"The price could be better for us in Bolivia."
"Needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
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Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 166 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "Stable, easy to set up, and offers good ROI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Easy to implement, fairly stable, and supports SSL-DPI". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with pfSense, Cisco ASA Firewall, Sophos XG, Check Point NGFW and Cisco SD-WAN, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco ASA Firewall, pfSense and Meraki MX. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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