We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa and Sophos UTM 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."This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The solution is stable."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"We like the features, but the main thing is from a commercial and cost perspective it is very good."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"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."
"I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"The functionality is the same whether it is on hardware or a virtual appliance. The interface is the same. It's nice that it's standardized."
"The most valuable features are the VPN, SSL VPN, and IPSec VPN."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The solution is stable."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"Sometimes I found the GUI and some of the features a little bit hard to navigate, as opposed to Fortigate, which is much more user-friendly."
"We have used other solutions such as pfSense and Linux native firewalls. I prefer SonicWall NSa but if you are going to use something for an enterprise you need another solution."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
"The stability is not there. The features are there, but they are not stable. They need to improve on this product because I feel that they have launched this product without much R&D."
"The product must enable integration with endpoint protection tools."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"The pricing is an issue."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSv, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our SonicWall NSa vs. Sophos UTM report.
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