We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ 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."The solution is very user-friendly."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"SonicWall TZ is very user-friendly and has network MAC binding. Additionally, the firewall works well."
"Technical support is good."
"This is a very stable product."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Its price could be better."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"I would like them to make the interface a little bit easier to use so you can find out where in the heck you're going instead of having to go to 15 different places to get something installed."
"The log analyzer in SonicWall TZ is something that they need to improve upon."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"The marketing of SonicWall has to be increased. Currently, when it comes to firewalls, most people go for Cisco and Palo Alto. SonicWall should improve its marketing and branding policies to increase sales. Other than that, it is good."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"There can be an improvement in analysis and reporting. We need enhancement on the reporting side."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"During initial configuration, I encountered a few issues."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos UTM report.
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