SonicWall NSa Valuable Features
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Sergi Pinto
Internet Manager at MICROBLAU SL
The security is great.
It has great performance.
The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good.
The deployment process is simple.
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reviewer1425894
IT Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very user friendly.
The performance and stability are two key features.
We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution.
View full review »I like that SonicWall NSa is a stable product. It's also a scalable product.
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SonicWall NSa
March 2024
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What's valuable in SonicWall NSa is the ATP (advanced threat protection). It can protect users from malicious links, e.g. those sent to the end user email and is clicked by the end user, who'll be led to a bad website. SonicWall NSa has a Sandboxing service that is very helpful for us, especially when end users accidentally click on malicious links.
Another valuable feature of this solution is that it is very useful for site-to-site VPN connectivity issues.
SonicWall NSa also has very good hardware, e.g. from 2013 to 2021, only one product had a hardware failure, and within 24 hours, they were able to replace that product.
I also love that SonicWall has very good technical support, who are very knowledgeable, provides good suggestions, and they're easy to reach.
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Rajesh Thakur
Technical Assistant (Senior) at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
SonicWall's technical support is very good. We get real-time support from them. The product also works fine. There are no issues with the hardware. The security is also good.
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GK1
Information Technology Team at Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd
For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM.
View full review »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.
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Aziz-Ahmed
Group IT Manager at Direct Remit Limited
SonicWall NSa is very easy to configure. For example, it's very easy to give internet access to a user. We have configured groups, and I can remove and add them whenever required. We use SonicWall NSa for authenticating MAC (media access control) ID from the PC.
View full review »I like this solution because we are focused on VPN and have many brands that need to link a VPN and have security, like ransomware, spyware, and basic protection.
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reviewer1562688
Systems network admin at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy. It's nice.
The scalability is okay.
The initial implementation isn't too bad, once you get used to the process.
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
It's good for firewall and gateway-level security. The VPN service is quite good, including the site-to-site VPN.
It works well for the corporate sector.
Sometimes I have some queries, and the SonicWall support team resolves my queries.
It offers a very straightforward setup.
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Mohamed Hekal
IT Manager at Esnad
SonicWall NS has a lot of valuable features. One of the best SonicWall NSa features is the ability to collect mini routers and get only one user connection.
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reviewer1120704
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feature wise, the content filtering is good.
The basic firewall rules of the solution are great.
View full review »I rate the performance an eight out of ten. The product is simple to manage. It is a good solution.
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Shahid Abbas
Manager of IT at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The content filtering is very good.
The solution is easy to use.
They offer good antivirus solutions. It's basically a complete package.
The solution is stable.
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Vinothkumar-Narasimman
Cyber Security at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The VPN functionality and intrusion prevention service (IPS) are the most valuable features.
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reviewer1981041
Senior System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
I like all the features. The global filtering and the content filtering are great. It's not always intuitive, however, you can usually figure it out. It's really handling all of our firewall needs.
It's stable.
The solution can scale.
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MuraliGovindarajan
Senior Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line.
SD-WAN is a good feature.
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Najeeb Haneefa
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping.
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Maksim Vedernikov
Quality engineer of the 1st category at Modern Expo
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 solution is a good product with a good value for money.
The security capabilities and policies are good. They can do a lot of tasks with ease.
The product is very useful for organizations with many locations. If you've got a lot of locations, the product can save you money as you don't need a physical box at each location.
The scalability is very good as it really can cover multiple locations.
SonicWall offers NG capabilities in virtual appliances.
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Tim Cook
Manager at Smeja Enterprises
Support is usually good when it comes to helping out with issues. Once the matrix is learned, it becomes a much better tool, but the learning curve is pretty large.
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RamaswamyK
M. I. S. Manager at Ruby Mills Ltd
It is a brilliant product. It is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) system. It has got about 11 security services that take care of your perimeter security. It takes care of any kind of cyber threats that could come in.
It takes care of creating VPNs between two SonicWalls instantly and very easily. It has got spyware in it as well as a firewall. It has also got a gateway antivirus and an application firewall that can block things from outside.
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Ravinder Singh
Senior Network Administrator at cogniter
The most valuable features are the antivirus and reporting.
SonicWall NSA is easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to configure. There are lots of features, which is really good for us
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Kelly Sietmann
Senior Manager Information Technology Infrastructure at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature for us at the moment is the VPN, given that everybody has moved to home offices.
It is easy to integrate.
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Harvey Halasan
IT Staff at Holy Name University
The most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the control aspect of the solution.
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reviewer1613847
Principal Associate - CloudOps at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable.
It's an excellent product for an SMB.
The filtering is excellent.
The solution is quite stable.
We found the initial setup to be straightforward.
You can scale the solution to a certain extent.
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Jeremi Albrizio
Information Security Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Compared to Cisco, SonicWall NSa is much easier to configure. Cisco tends to be cumbersome through the web interface. It's easy through the command line, but when you're troubleshooting something, you're usually not going through the command line. When you're digging through data trying to find if something happened, you're usually digging through the logs, through the web interface, because it should be much easier. In Cisco, the logs are odd and you have to be really particular on what you want. You have to look for specific details.
This process is much easier SonicWall NSa. I want to know where the problem started and where it ended, that's it; and it's really clear in SonicWall NSa. Whereas in Cisco it's just not clear at all.
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reviewer1112532
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
There are no specific features that you can say are better than anything else. It's very flexible and it meets our customer's needs.
View full review »SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI. It's a web-based application, so we can easily configure all we want in the browser.
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reviewer1120704
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is working okay. The product is working feature-wise.
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reviewer1384011
IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
It is able to fulfill my requirements. It protects our network environment. It has control over IPS, signatures, and it can also manage bandwidth and mapping. It is also stable and has good support.
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Hector Lopez
IT and Project Manager at Network Secure El Salvador
The most valuable feature is the sandbox.
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reviewer1314267
Director of IT at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to work like any other firewall.
The product is pretty easy to configure. It's easy to maintain and it works well with Windows.
There are features that offer 3G, 4G, failover, wireless, and things like that are very good. I'm not a firewall expert, however, in my opinion, the solution pretty much covers the needs of small and medium businesses.
View full review »Application control: It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone.
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Leen Van Gent
IT Superintendent at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees
At the moment, none. It just doesn't do its task. Users, no matter how you configure it - and it's configured quite carefully in the sense of censoring - seem to be able to punch to the file. It just doesn't do its job.
It seems to have all the features, it's just not performing.
It has good reporting, the reporting is marvelous, but reporting is always after the fact and you want to be proactive if you're a firewall. You don't want to be saying “Ah! We had a bot running on the network,” while SonicWall itself didn't give that indication in an active way.
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Petr HEZINA
IT architect, Integrator at Ujv
Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case.
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Balaraju K
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd
SonicWall has all the usual functions, like LAN configurations, security features, word filters, etc., but it also has the CFS agent, which isn't available in any other firewall. Reporting port support is also there.
I also like the ability to manage all the firewalls from a single location. We can support all those things from this application. It's a cloud-based solution.
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reviewer1522938
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection). Also, the ATP packet capture is helpful. We used these features during our restoration.
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Flavio Soares
Senior Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
At the end of the day, all the solutions in this category are more or less alike. They all do the same thing in different ways. I've found the best features of NSA are the graphic interface which is very user friendly and I also find the solution to be very intuitive. The product has more features than I can use.
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Ajit-Kumar
Cloud Technical Specialist at nimit tech
The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering.
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Art Leiby
President at The lerepco Group
The most valuable features to us are the security services which is a critical factor in our deployment. Today we need to have all the security services enabled because firewalls are not enough.
- Site-to-Site VPN
- Deep Packet Inspection
- Easy routing capabilities
- Stability
- AD integration
- Traffic shaping options
- VLAN options per interface
- APP based rules/filtering
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reviewer1518225
Director Comercial at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features.
It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors.
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Larry Williams
Owner/Founder at team one consulting
It has excellent stability.
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reviewer1383846
IT Head at a construction company with 51-200 employees
We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the:
- URL filtering by category,
- DMZ zoning
- Load balancing
- The site-to-site VPN.
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Bishoy Habib
Senior Security Consultant. at Ingram Micro Inc.
I really like the performance; there are no delays and no latency, which is a unique quality in firewalls nowadays.
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reviewer1659987
IT Administrator at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is user-friendly with good security and application control which is very important these days.
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reviewer1052460
Network & System Engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
It's an all-in-one solution. We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature.
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reviewer997284
Network Engineer at a maritime company with 201-500 employees
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.
View full review »The security features we pretty good. The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have.
The web sourcing was very good.
The stability was very good.
We found the installation to be pretty straightforward.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
We like the features, but the main thing is from a commercial and cost perspective it is very good.
The interface is user-friendly.
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Marcio Vieira
Solutions Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This solution has always delivered us security features with great efficiency like:
- Web content filter with a very extensive and always updated database;
- IPS with an extensive list of signature attacks;
- Anti-virus system with cloud sandbox that inspects 'file-less' attacks and delivers only after the verdict;
- Real time flow inspection system;
- Application Control with an extensive list of signatures;
- DPI-SSL inspection in the data layer;
- SSO with LDAP directory services.
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Manoj Nair
Tech consultant at select softwares
It's very simple to use and the support is great. I am in India and they have a support office here. As a company product, SonicWall firewalls and their support has been excellent.
It's a simple, rugged product. When I say rugged, mechanically, it's a very rugged box. The same thing applies to Sophos also, it's also a very rugged box. It's rugged technology, it can take a beating and still be operational.
One of the greatest strengths of the SonicWall system is that they have multiple portals for multiple tasks, whereas all the other solutions have no single tool for doing multiple tasks. That has been one major advantage of SonicWall. Regarding the SonicWall box, you need to be capable of taking multiple loads compared to the competition. That's a very unique feature of the SonicWall system. They also have an antivirus solution that is tied to their system which is called SentinelOne.
The support is very good. The product is also very reliable. There are always new, frequent updates — nothing more or less. It's very flexible; it's ready to go right out of the box, unlike some other solutions which require a lot of training. The GUI is very user-friendly. Even if you've never touched a firewall in your life, with a bit of time and practice, you'll get the hang of it.
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reviewer1126683
IT Security Analyst at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
This product is user-friendly and easy to configure.
The logging is very good, as long as it is configured properly.
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reviewer1590810
NOC Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
One of the main features is the built-in storage capacity.
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Manish Nalawade
Owner at it logic
What I like the most is that this is a one-time purchase with no renewal fees.
The stability is better than other products.
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Kenneth Eygenraam
Solutions Architect at Quartet Service Inc.
The most valuable feature is the Global Management System. This is the driving force behind why we continue to use it.
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Sadiq Abdulwahab
Network Administrator at N S PHARMACY SDN.BHD.
- Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours.
- Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services.
I like that you can run a packet capture from within SonicWall and configure it to automatically upload the packet captures to an FTP server. This is useful when trying to troubleshoot an intermittent issue. It can capture for as long as you have disk space on the FTP server.
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Shaik Parveez
Network Engineer at commit
The most valuable features are the VPN, SSL VPN, and IPSec VPN.
The port forwarding functionality works well.
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reviewer1625292
Creative Head/Director at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
SonicWall NSa has user-friendly firmware.
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ManagDir227
Lead Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
- Content Filtering
- Sandboxing
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Vaniele Ferreira
Consultant at Techmail
- Web filter
- DHCP
- Monitoring capabilities
- IPsec VPN and other security controls
- Integration with the active directory and other security controls (IPS and IDS).
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Presalesa8b7
Presales Manager
- SSL VPN & Application Control
- SSL VPN is important since several people are mobile and need files to access the server in the office. This is convenient, since they don’t need to go back to the office just use the SSL VPN.
- Application control is important to limit the users in the office from consuming bandwidth such as downloads by torrent and games. This also protects us from malicious applications such as anonymous proxy.
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reviewer1646865
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides.
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reviewer992610
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features are that it is reasonably-priced and works well.
View full review »Because this is a UTM, we appreciate having a single pane of glass for a firewall, content filtering, and IPS/IDS services. It is much easier to manage and costs less.
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Muhammed Yasir
Director Information Systems at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
Security and Filtering. We bought this device for security and to filter traffic on our network -- these features are working fine.
I think these are the most important features for anyone who is interested in UTM.
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reviewer1062846
IT Services Coordinator with 11-50 employees
Compact 1u, 1/4 depth size. 16 x 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, fibre ready. Management interface that is relatively simple to figure out.
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Balaraju K
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd
The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise.
View full review »Since we have a strict SLA of 99.98% up-time on our network per year, (including maintenance), resilience is our main concern. It is a good thing that our very own NSA 4600 has high availability/stateful firewall capabilities.
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SonicWall NSa
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SonicWall NSa. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.