Menlo Secure vs SonicWall NSSP comparison

Menlo Security and SonicWall are both solutions in the Firewalls category. Menlo Security is ranked #51, while SonicWall is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.3. Menlo Security holds a 0.3% mindshare in Firewalls, compared to SonicWall’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Menlo Security users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SonicWall users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Menlo Secure and SonicWall NSSP are both competitive security solutions. Menlo Secure is preferred for pricing and support, while SonicWall NSSP edges out in features, making it worth the price.

Features: Menlo Secure is praised for its cloud-based security, ease of integration, and responsive support. SonicWall NSSP stands out with robust threat detection, comprehensive reporting tools, and advanced automation capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Menlo Secure users suggest enhancements in threat intelligence, reporting accuracy, and advanced threat detection. SonicWall NSSP users want better performance optimization under heavy load, simpler deployment processes, and a more user-friendly interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Menlo Secure is noted for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. SonicWall NSSP deployment is more complex, but once set up, users find its support team highly effective.

Pricing and ROI: Menlo Secure offers competitive setup costs and a solid return on investment, resonating well with users looking for value. SonicWall NSSP has higher costs, but users believe the extensive features justify the investment. SonicWall NSSP's ROI is seen as superior due to its advanced capabilities.

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Menlo Secure vs. SonicWall NSSP

June 2026

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Fortinet FortiGate

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Firewalls category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiGate is 15.1%, down from 21.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Menlo Secure is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SonicWall NSSP is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewalls Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Fortinet FortiGate	15.1%
SonicWall NSSP	0.4%
Menlo Secure	0.3%
Other	84.2%

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Joseph Koomson

IP Network Security Specialist at MTN Ghana

Process-Level CPU Visibility: Introduce detailed CPU-usage metrics per subsystem (e.g., IPS engine, logging) so administrators can quickly identify and address performance spikes.

Analytics with FortiAnalyzer. Being able to pull in logs not just from our FortiGates but from all our other firewalls and then get them in one view has been a game changer. Whether I’m building an executive dashboard or doing a deep dive forensics session, I get everything I need without navigating consoles.Straightforward Application Control. FortiGate spots and blocks unwanted apps (eq. like BitTorrent or streaming services) with accuracy. Segmentation with VDOMs. We’ve carved our data center into four logical ‘mini-firewalls’ enterprise, core, billing, and WAF—all on one box. Each has its own rules and logs, and any traffic between them still gets inspected. It’s like having multiple appliances without the extra hardware. Always-Up-to-Date Threat Feeds. Daily signature updates and AI-driven threat sensing mean we’re blocking the latest vulnerabilities almost as soon as they’re announced.

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reviewer2701794

Head Of Bluechip Enterprise at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Provides strong protection and multiple use cases but struggles with market recognition

There aren't specific areas for improvement; however, they're not as well known as the big vendors such as Palo Alto. Menlo Secure is a smaller company with limited resources and funding, which makes it challenging to compete with larger companies such as Palo and Cisco. What can be improved is market awareness and adoption of the technology. When selling it in the channel, regardless of how good the technology might be, success depends more on market adoption and awareness.

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SyedTaha

Head of IT and Information Security at GLEEDS USA INC

Support has resolved concerns promptly and security tools have strengthened intrusion prevention and access control

The service we received from SonicWall NSSP and their distributors has been excellent. Every time I have had a concern, they have resolved it in a single call. The interface of SonicWall NSSP console is user-friendly with comprehensive features. The web filtering and access control policy are top priorities for me. It is very effective because it prevents any indecent behaviors in the network or from outside the network. Half of the task is completed by the intelligence based on the behavior. Installation was easy because our infrastructure has minimal requirements. For expanded infrastructure, support from a SonicWall NSSP technical team may be required. We have implemented it on our own.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"FortiGate has led to a reduction in our security budget."

"The web controls are what I appreciate about Fortinet FortiGate. We have extensive controls over areas where we could block external-facing IPs, external URLs. We can do geo-fencing with the firewalls, which is a good feature."

"The solution has a variety of excellent features."

"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."

"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."

"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."

"Fortinet FortiGate has been a Perimeter Security which defends our network from Internet attackers, armed with zero-day exploits of common Internet services like HTTP and SMTP."

"The services on offer are just superb."

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"We have definitely seen ROI, as we save a ton of money and time because the numerous hits that we were receiving from our security tools prior to implementing them had to all be chased down, dispositioned, and endpoints had to be reimaged."

"For us, the primary goal is protection on the web, and that's extremely important. We're not using any of the other services at this time. The web part is key to the success of the organization. It gives us the ability to protect. It can isolate. It opens the session in an isolated format so that the code isn't running locally. It is running over in the Menlo environment, not in ours. It is not running on the local computer, whereas if you were to go to a normal website, it would run Java or something else on the local machine and potentially execute the malicious code locally. So, it does give us that level of protection."

"We are not aware of a single compromise from the web since implementing the solution."

"Either you have access to something or don't have access to it, and if you do, we can ensure, 100 percent of the time, that there is nothing malicious that is going to impact our system in any way."

"The solution is invisible to our end users, so it doesn't have any impact on their work or performance."

"Accessing the internet with a proxy from anywhere is the most valuable feature. It ensures that users are only able to browse legitimate websites. If they happen to go to a legitimate website with a malicious payload, the isolation feature will take care of that."

"It has reduced security events to follow up on. While it is not 100%, there has been probably a 90% or more reduction. We were getting hit left, right, and center constantly from people browsing the Internet and hitting bad websites. It was not just bad websites that were stood up to be malicious, but good sites that were compromised."

"The fact that it is a cloud proxy solution is another feature we like. For example, if you acquire a new company, you can use it to protect that new company without the need to install anything physically on their networks."

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"SonicWall has helped us deliver security solutions effectively, particularly in threat prevention and content filtering."

"SonicWall NSSP offers features such as stateful firewall, deep packet inspections, IPS, application intelligence, user-based policies, centralized visibility from the management console, advanced protection with RFDPI, high-speed scanning, RTDMI technology, Capture ATP, cloud sandboxing, and encrypted traffic inspection with DPI-SSL and TLS."

"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."

"If I had to pick between the top three firewalls with all things being equal, I would go with SonicWall just for the support and ease of management."

"The sandbox and the DPI-SSL are two main key features that I find valuable."

"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."

"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."

"The interface of SonicWall NSSP console is user-friendly with comprehensive features, and the web filtering and access control policy are top priorities for me as it very effectively prevents any indecent behaviors in the network or from outside the network."

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Cons

"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."

"It needs more available central management."

"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."

"However, the problem is that their subscription price is very high."

"My experience integrating SD-WAN capabilities with Fortinet FortiGate is in the middle ground."

"The licensing could be improved as it is a little confusing and too granular for Fortinet FortiGate."

"The renewal cost is much higher than other firewalls. It is not reasonable."

"The UTM filtering needs improvement."

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"Currently, I don't have a good way to see which of my rules are being used in the access control lists. I have numerous entries, but are they all still needed? A report that would show me my list of who is allowed and whether we're actually using it would be useful because I can then go clean up my list. It would be easier to manage. We would eliminate the vulnerability of unused services."

"The user monitoring could still be improved."

"In the best of all worlds, we wouldn't have to make any exceptions. However, that is a big ask because a lot of that depends on how websites are constructed. For example, there are some very complex, application-oriented sites that we end up making exceptions for. It is really not that big an issue for us to make the exceptions. We feel like we are doing that without a huge impact on our security posture, but we do have to make some exceptions for complex sites, e.g., mostly SaaS-type sites and applications."

"Currently, I don't have a good way to see which of my rules are being used in the access control lists."

"Menlo Secure is a smaller company with limited resources and funding, which makes it challenging to compete with larger companies such as Palo and Cisco."

"We are now transitioning to another solution. The main reason for that is that managing all of the exceptions and troubleshooting all of the issues our users have had connecting to the internet has become too significant in terms of workload, compared to what we hope we will have with another solution."

"The platform could benefit from an improved marketing strategy."

"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."

"The initial setup is quite complex because we have to get a lot of policies."

"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."

"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it."

"The EDR and XDR capabilities of SonicWall need to be improved."

"In my opinion, SonicWall NSSP needs improvements, particularly in Gen 7 devices, where I face high data plane and management plane issues, especially when enabling User Level Authentication."

"The product needs improvement for phishing emails."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is normal. If I compare it with other vendors, such as Palo Alto, it's normal. Palo Alto is expensive."

"Fortinet is the least expensive solution."

"Fortinet FortiGate is cheaper than Palo Alto. It is about 20% cheaper."

"The price is okay, so far so good."

"The solution requires a license annually, it is not a user license, you can have as many users as your want. I must renew the license regularly per device."

"The pricing is justified. It's a little pricey, but what you pay for is what you get."

"There is only a standard license cost to use the solution."

"The support subscription for the solution is annual. You are paying for support and there are two levels of support, professional and advanced."

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"It is appropriately priced for what they're doing for us. Considering the protection provided, I feel their pricing is spot-on."

"The solution is expensive. It's more expensive than the solution I previously used. Compared with the other cloud-based solutions, it's very competitive."

"We save a ton of money and time. Previously, the numerous hits that we were receiving from our security tools, prior to implementing them, had to all be chased down, dispositioned, and endpoints had to be reimaged. It was just a ton of effort to do all that. That is where the savings from time and money come in."

"The setup costs and licensing are reasonable, and the solution provides good value for its features."

"For SonicWall NSSP high availability, active/passive, you need to buy one license, and so you get much more value for money."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

"The pricing is cheap, and that's where, you know, the some of the organization goes for the SonicWall."

"You got to buy some VPN licenses, and there might be a $40 to $50 one-time license fee per current user. There are different layers. They have several different levels of event security software and depending on the model, it seems to come out to be $1 to $2 a day. So, if you bought a three-year license, it is going to be anywhere from $900 to $1800 depending on the bundle and model that you buy."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

14%

Construction Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

17%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	369
Midsize Enterprise	139
Large Enterprise	195

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Large Enterprise	3

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Also Known As

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall

Menlo Security Web Security, Menlo Web Security

SonicWall Network Security Services Platform

Overview

Fortinet FortiGate is a versatile network security tool offering features like VPN, firewall, web filtering, intrusion prevention, and scalability. It is known for its performance and integration with other Fortinet products, making it a preferred choice for robust cybersecurity.

Fortinet FortiGate stands out as a comprehensive cybersecurity solution with strong performance and ease of configuration. It delivers unified threat management, integrating features such as dynamic routing, SD-WAN support, and centralized management. Despite its strengths, improvements in the web interface's stability, pricing structures, and reporting capabilities are needed. Users seek better integration with third-party tools and automation advancements to enhance the experience further. These enhancements, alongside improvements in bandwidth management and the reduction of licensing costs, are points of interest for users looking to capitalize on FortiGate's extensive capabilities.

What are Fortinet FortiGate's key features?

VPN: Ensures secure remote connections.
Firewall: Protects against unauthorized access.
Web Filtering: Blocks malicious sites and content.
Application Control: Manages and controls applications.
Intrusion Prevention: Detects and prevents vulnerabilities.
SSL Inspection: Enhances security by inspecting encrypted traffic.

What benefits should be considered when evaluating Fortinet FortiGate?

Affordability: Offers cost-effective security solutions.
Reliability: Known for consistent and stable performance.
Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Fortinet products.
Comprehensive Protection: Provides broad threat protection capabilities.

Fortinet FortiGate is widely implemented across industries as a primary firewall system for securing internet gateways and safeguarding data centers. It supports businesses in achieving SD-WAN integration and enhances cybersecurity by providing essential features like antivirus, web filtering, and application control. Enterprises utilize FortiGate for securing remote connections and ensuring compliance with security standards, making it adaptable for different network sizes and industries.

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Menlo Security Secure Application Access

Menlo Security Secure Application Access makes zero trust access easy, giving users secure connectivity to private applications, including web and legacy applications. At the core of Secure Application Access is the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser, which fetches, secures and delivers the content for users.

In addition to providing simple-to-deploy, clientless ZTA, Secure Application Access and the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser protect applications from attacks such as session hijacking, cookie manipulation, and other tactics that employ protocol manipulation.

Secure Application Access protects applications from Internet threats and provides granular controls for added protection of the application and associated data. These security controls include Read-only/Read-write, Upload/download, Copy/paste, AV scanning, Sandboxing, and Data Loss Prevention.

Last Mile Data Protection

Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection identifies and prevents sensitive data from leaving your company by meticulously inspecting all file uploads and user input across browsing sessions. Leveraging the Secure Cloud Browser, users are protected from the internet and you can protect your organization from data loss with comprehensive traffic monitoring and controls. This approach addresses the growing concerns surrounding data leakage in the age of AI tools like ChatGPT.

By identifying sensitive data through file types, regular expressions, or predefined libraries, Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection empowers security teams to regulate data input into AI platforms and prevent unauthorized uploads. This capability provides crucial protection for intellectual property, PII, and other confidential information.

The solution leverages the Menlo Cloud Security Platform's visibility and control over traffic to reliably detect and prevent data leaks originating from both browser submission forms and non-browser traffic. With the ability to inspect encrypted web traffic, Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection enforces DLP policies consistently across all users and devices, ensuring comprehensive data protection.

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SonicWall NSSP provides web filtering, SSL certification, and a strong security posture, valued for its ease of management and stability. Medium to small businesses rely on it for comprehensive protection against digital threats, noting its favorable pricing.

SonicWall NSSP is recognized for its ability to deliver effective threat protection through features like sandboxing, DPI-SSL, advanced threat protection, and content filtering. Users commend its user-friendly interface that allows seamless configurations and efficient troubleshooting. Comprehensive security features such as load balancing, antivirus, and ransomware protection further enhance its appeal. Businesses appreciate its capabilities, but acknowledge areas needing improvement, such as phishing email protection, marketing strategies, and competitive pricing. The demand for more robust firmware, simpler interfaces and enhanced reporting functions becomes apparent as competitors like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point are often favored in comparison. Used primarily by medium to small businesses for intrusion detection, web filtering, and network monitoring, SonicWall NSSP effectively manages multiple security functionalities.

What are the key features of SonicWall NSSP?

Web Filtering: Controls access to inappropriate web content.
SSL Certification: Ensures secure encrypted connections.
Sandbox: Isolates threats for examination.
DPI-SSL: Deep Packet Inspection of SSL traffic.
Load Balancing: Distributes network load efficiently.
Antivirus: Defense against malware and viruses.
Ransomware Protection: Shields against ransomware attacks.

What benefits should users seek in SonicWall NSSP reviews?

Ease of Management: Simplifies administration and configuration tasks.
Stability: Offers consistent and reliable performance.
Security Posture: Provides comprehensive protection against threats.
Cost Efficiency: Considered favorable in terms of pricing and overall value.

In industries like media, entertainment, banking, and finance, SonicWall NSSP is used to safeguard servers in data centers, ensuring robust defense against internal and external attacks. It functions as a Unified Protection Manager, incorporating web filtering, IDS, IPS, firewall functionality, load balancing, and antivirus solutions to protect against digital threats effectively.

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Sample Customers

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Dell, HP, Oracle, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Vodafone, Orange, BT Group, Telstra, Deutsche Telekom, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, NTT Communications, Tata Communications, SoftBank, China Mobile, Singtel, Telus, Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Telkom Indonesia, Telkom South Africa, Telmex, Telia Company, Telkom Kenya

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