We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate vs SonicWall NSa based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet FortiGate has the winning edge in this comparison. Customers are more satisfied with Fortinet FortiGate’s scalability, robust features, and ROI.
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"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."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"Valuable features include a web filter, DHCP, and monitoring capabilities."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"The solution can scale."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"After-sales support and hands-on training facilities are not available in my country."
"SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement."
"The dynamics needs to be improved. The solution is not very compatible compared to the market products."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"Having to deal with too many lower-level people in technical support means that it takes longer to resolve issues, so escalating support tickets should be faster."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"One issue with the solution is that no authorization or authentication features exist."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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