We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSv and SonicWall TZ 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 most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The product helps improve our security."
"The solution has no additional charges and no restrictions on the number of users."
"We purchased the AGSS Bundle (Advanced Gateway Security Suite) for the security services, such as antivirus, intrusion prevention system, and anti-spyware botnet GUI."
"The customization of firewall rules provides great value to our customers as it allows them to lock things up in the way that they desire. When it is used for internal access, with a VPN in place for remote workers, the firewalling services provided by Azure, such as the default services that can be turned on, are applied. However, the use of a software-based virtual firewall gives us greater flexibility in introducing security controls for customers who are publishing applications that are publicly accessible from the public cloud. This virtual firewall provides an additional layer of security and more extensive security control options to ensure the protection of our customers' valuable information and assets."
"SonicWall NSV is easy to use, and you can use it to manage the logs easily."
"One of the standout features of SonicWall is its simplicity in creating and managing rules."
"The security of this system is fantastic, including the IPS and IDS."
"The solution is stable."
"Ease of management and the VPN integration."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"We are very much happy with the support."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"Most of the features are useful. It is easy to configure and easy to troubleshoot. I can see the utilization of different networks, and there are also App control features."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"The scalability could be better."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"Backup can be improved."
"An area that could be improved is the export and import settings functionality."
"I would like to see the reporting opened up and have several more opportunities for automatic reports."
"There are limitations to bandwidth management."
"It has been brought to our attention by a few customers that they are dissatisfied with the fact that our virtualized service is only offered as a subscription option on the cloud. However, it is worth noting that many other similar services are also offered through a subscription model on the cloud and not through perpetual licensing. It is unclear why these customers would have an issue with this subscription service when so many others are utilizing similar methods."
"We face some challenges when we upgrade the solution."
"SonicWall NSV's initial setup is complicated and requires good knowledge."
"SonicWall NSV's SSL VPN could increase its number of users to 100-plus users."
"In terms of what needs to be improved, I would say better load balancing and data filtering."
"Full monitoring obviously needs to be improved. We need full monitoring covered under the security licensing."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"We require centralized monitoring of the network features, which they have but they are not to the level that we require."
"The interface and technical support are probably the two most important things that I would like SonicWall to improve."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
SonicWall NSv is ranked 35th in Firewalls with 7 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. SonicWall NSv is rated 8.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSv writes "Easy to use, stable, and the security features work well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". SonicWall NSv is most compared with Azure Firewall, SonicWall NSa and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. See our SonicWall NSv vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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