We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"SonicWall TZ is very user-friendly and has network MAC binding. Additionally, the firewall works well."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"They give good protection to my network and support it."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Its price could be better."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"The solution must provide more ports."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"FortiGate has a client DNS in the firewall, but SonicWall doesn't have that. To create or configure a site-to-site VPN tunnel, we have to give a DNS name. Currently, we have to get the DNS name from a third party and then include it in SonicWall, whereas FortiGate has its own client DNS, so it provides a DNS name, and it does not require a third party. There should be a graphical option to view the network utilization and bandwidth usage."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"Support for SonicWall TZ needs improvement, particularly the time it takes before you're able to speak to a support person, e.g. you have to wait for at least 30 minutes on the phone."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX.
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