SonicWall NSa pros and cons

Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach.

They offer good antivirus solutions.

The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy.

I like that SonicWall NSa is a stable product. It's also a scalable product.

What I like best about SonicWall NSa is the security it offers compared to other solutions in the market. Its reduction rate is also better than others.

The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good.

The features that I have found most valuable are the firewalling, which is very good and the GUI which is very intuitive. It is easy to use, and provides great security.

The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have.

SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line.

For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM.

SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement.

The ongoing service fees are high.

We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially.

One area for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the GUI. It isn't easy to understand. The support for SonicWall NSa is mediocre, which is another area for improvement.

SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day.

I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication.

It is not scalable. If your enterprise is growing hard then you have to buy another, bigger product. Maybe if you use it virtually it is more scalable.

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 security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything.

A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function.