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SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection vs The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai comparison

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Categories and Ranking

SonicWall Capture Advanced ...
Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
27th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
The NodeZero Platform by Ho...
Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
13th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (7th), Penetration Testing Services (1st), Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) (1st), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd), AI-Powered Penetration Testing (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category, the mindshare of SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection is 2.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai is 1.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai1.2%
SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection2.1%
Other96.7%
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
 

Featured Reviews

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Technical Manager, NOC at TEXUM JORDAN
Has a good configuration but the price should be more competitive
Our primary use case of this solution is for security.  It's a good solution but the price is high. It also has an easy configuration. The feedback that we get from our customers is that it's a good product. Our customers are mostly smaller enterprises.  The price should be more competitive.  I…
Brent Hamlin - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Continuous threat scanning has improved remediation time and strengthened executive reporting
The best features that The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai offers include the automated scans, which are great to use; you set it, scope it, and let it go, which works really well. The executive reporting feature is impactful for me as a manager, providing a strong foundation to give quarterly and yearly reports to our executives and board to see the state of our infrastructure from a security standpoint. The level of detail and clarity in the executive reports from The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai absolutely helps me communicate effectively with leadership. They are detailed enough for me to extract the necessary information tailored for the executives and to provide a broader perspective on our mitigation efforts or accepted risk stance and where additional controls exist. The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai has positively impacted my organization by giving us a better continuous picture of our security posture, what's exploitable, and what can be used against the organization. It allows us to run scans whenever needed, unlike a single third-party system that only provides a snapshot in time; our processes must be ongoing as the security landscape is dynamic. NodeZero's endpoint security effectiveness feature impacts my understanding of potential security threats by providing a clear picture of both the external and internal landscapes within my organization, enabling me to prioritize and adjust as needed for vulnerabilities such as WordPress plugin issues or user enumerations and software code version assessments. I have built The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai into our weekly and monthly workflows for security CI/CD, and we scan our externally accessible assets every week to address anything quickly if it comes up. That includes our firewalls, websites, and anything that is an external web server, which we scan weekly, while the monthly scans are for internal systems that feed our security CI/CD pipeline, enabling us to action across and prioritize any vulnerabilities caught by The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the alerting system."
"I enjoy SonicWall as a package, with a robust firewall solution that protects against zero-day threats, optimizes network traffic for critical applications, and offers easy setup and automation for enterprises as well as small businesses."
"It also has an easy configuration. The feedback that we get from our customers is that it's a good product."
"We use it for protection against viruses and ransomware attacks."
"For the past four and a half years, we haven't had any breaches or issues of any kind."
"I would recommend this solution, as a firewall product solution that has a similar sandboxing type of thing has become quite an essential part of a security footprint."
"The stability of the solution is good. We haven't had any breaches or crashes. It's been very stable for us."
"SonicWall came out with a new add-on; it was inexpensive to add on to the existing product that we already owned, so we added it."
"Using The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai has helped us close more deals and speed up our sales cycle, as it is well-known that we sell to customers within the Horizon company through the partner portal and deal registration."
"The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai has allowed us to quickly and easily identify the exploits in our environment that are greatly increasing our risk, simplified that process and also our remediation process, allowing us to more easily work with teams to show how it is exploitable and what they need to do to fix those issues, significantly improving our finding discovery and remediation process of vulnerabilities and overall decreasing our risk."
"Overall, I'd rate NodeZero at nine to 9.5 out of ten."
"I rate the stability of the NodeZero Platform a ten out of ten."
"The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai has positively impacted my organization by allowing my security team to be more efficient and focus on the most valuable work at the highest criticality."
"What I appreciate the most about The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai is its distinctive competitive advantage, which is the ability to bundle multiple security solutions into one single tool."
"Honestly, it's one of the most transformational technologies we've implemented in our company."
"The NodeZero Platform's real attack capabilities help identify vulnerabilities on my on-premise systems by adding an element of validation and offensive security testing on top of known vulnerabilities. The feature that allows security teams to fix and retest vulnerabilities instantly is very useful, even though it may not happen literally 'instantly.' It's a necessary tool for any organization to understand whether vulnerabilities are genuinely exploitable by attackers. With its near-real-time testing capabilities, it's an essential part of any security portfolio."
 

Cons

"I would say the solution needs a much simpler user interface, but the functionality of the firewall is quite extensive. You need the user interface to be that way. However, if there was a way to make the user interface a little easier, that would be great."
"I would like to have better documentation before starting with deployment because the deployment is a bit complex."
"It does fare well against enterprise products."
"Could provide online training to allow customers to learn more about the product."
"If anything at all, it would be some very minor updates that need to be done, but in terms of changes, nothing comes to mind."
"The setup needs improvement. It needs to be made more user-friendly."
"SonicWall had a recent layoff. This is a concern for us, because now we are missing the local presence from both the engineering and sales side."
"Having an on-premise solution as well would be an option for some people, but they'll want to use a cloud solution for their sandboxing. Certain sites would want to keep all the checks done on an on-premise appliance. All the checking, rather than sending that up into a cloud engine."
"I haven't really come across anything that I say needs to be improved with it, other than the container runner, which tends to lose time."
"You need to be cautious about what it scans, as it could potentially cause issues."
"Occasionally, I will get one that does not offer a lot in the way of specific steps because the device on which it found the vulnerability is not a standard device that it recognizes."
"The setting up of new runners in The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai could be simplified a little bit; currently, it's kind of a three-step process where you have to set up the assets in a separate menu, then a separate menu to set up a template, and then you actually set up the runner, so it would be nice if from the runner creation screen it just took you through the whole process instead of having to navigate to three different tabs."
"If we have had problems, that is with the actual licensing style they are using."
"Sometimes even their support doesn't know why we're seeing certain issues."
"One of the areas where improvement is needed is in the visibility and reporting for large enterprises."
"I think The NodeZero Platform could improve by leveraging GPUs for password cracking, which would be pretty good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We get our value for our money."
"When you compare it with other solutions, they are cheaper and more economical."
"The best deal from SonicWall is to buy the HA pair. When you buy the initial one, you receive the second one at a significant discount. If there is an event and something happens to one firewall, then you have the second firewall to roll into. For the price, it's pretty to tough to beat and not a lot of other firewall vendors offer it. You battle for a discount on both. Where with SonicWall, if you buy one, the second one is at half price. It's pretty straightforward."
"It's thirty dollars per user and we have 30 users."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Construction Company
14%
Media Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection?
SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection needs to reconsider the pricing, especially in the cloud environment. The product is good overall, but the GUI needs to be more stable. I chose nine out...
What is your primary use case for SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection?
My main use case for SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection is that it helps us with sandboxing for analyzing and inspecting unknown files and URLs. A quick specific example of how I've used ...
What advice do you have for others considering SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection?
I advise others looking into using SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection to consider that it is truly helpful and very important to have great sandboxing with advanced threat protection to s...
What needs improvement with Horizon3.ai?
The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai could be improved if automated fixes could be implemented, which would be fantastic. I rate it an eight because speeding up the penetration test time for runnin...
What is your primary use case for Horizon3.ai?
My main use case for The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai is penetration testing for cybersecurity. A specific example of how I have used The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai for penetration testin...
What advice do you have for others considering Horizon3.ai?
The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai's AI capabilities demonstrate very good governance and security, which I like very much as it has been helpful to my team and it really allows us to tackle the ...
 

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Sample Customers

Wonder Cement, Foster Clark Products
Government agencies, Defense Industrial Base organizations, and enterprises in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and criticalinfrastructure rely on NodeZero to meet rigorous security and compliance requirements with continuous, scheduled, and on-demand testing.
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