We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks PA-Series and SonicWall NSSP 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."Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The solution provides good customer support."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"It has its own logging system. You can go to monitoring and check the logs to see if a connection is getting blocked. You can use multiple types of logs to check if a file or a port is getting blocked or if there are any TCP resets from the source or destination. It's easy to troubleshoot with the monitoring and logging it provides."
"The product's initial setup process was simple."
"A valuable feature that we can consider is the deployment time, which is significantly reduced. It is almost 90% faster compared to other solutions."
"The tool's most valuable feature is WildFire."
"It offers application-based policy enforcement. Palo Alto Networks firewalls help us recognize protocol anomalies, contrasting with other vendors that may require policies based on port numbers. With Palo Alto Networks, the port number isn't a constraint because their devices handle protocol traffic at Layer 7, allowing for accurate identification of protocol usage and port numbers. They can identify which protocol actually uses which port."
"The solution has a three-layer architecture, and it helps customers to deploy the solution quickly."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"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 solution's pricing is good."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The scalability could be better."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The SD-WAN feature of Palo Alto Networks is not good compared to FortiGate."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is expensive. We would like to see additional threat hunting features."
"There is room for improvement in streamlining this process for smoother transitions."
"The interface is complex."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series should improve its price. It should also include a feature similar to Sophos' Security Heartbeat."
"Pricing flexibility could be an aspect worth considering, as it has been a concern for some of our clients."
"The pricing of the solution needs improvement."
"The product's high prices are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"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 solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 28 reviews while SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6, while SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas SonicWall NSSP is most compared with SonicWall NSa. See our Palo Alto Networks PA-Series vs. SonicWall NSSP report.
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