We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall."
"What I like best about SonicWall NSa is the security it offers compared to other solutions in the market. Its reduction rate is also better than others."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"The most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"It's very flexible and meets our customer's needs."
"Content Filtering and sandboxing are valuable features."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"Our old firewall was running as HA (High Availability) on two different but identical rack mounted servers. Moving to SonicWall allowed the company to move to one unit, yet accommodate more connections because it had sixteen ports and handled fail-over better than the old firewall solution."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"The web interface administration of SonicWall NSa could be improved. Compared to Sophos and FortiGate, making rules is easier with those systems."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"It only has a single power interface, which has limitations in terms of high availability."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"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 product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"I would like U.S.-based technical support."
Earn 20 points
McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with , whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense.
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