We performed a comparison between Sonicwall TZ and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy to manage the entire solution and it can be done anywhere. Users find it very light, stable, and it provides excellent real-time control. Users say SonicWall TZ struggles a bit with load balancing and data filtering, making it a slightly less desirable solution.
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"It is a safe product."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"SonicWall TZ is a very cost-effective solution that provides good security."
"SonicWall TZ is a stable product."
"The solution is priced fairly and competitively."
"The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"The performance has been very good. Overall, the solution is quite stable."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"The most useful aspect of the solution is the concept of integrated security."
"In terms of the functionality, I think it's pretty straightforward. It's easy to pick up. It's also user-friendly."
"The VPN access for users is also a great thing, especially nowadays when working from home."
"Sophos XG is very useful, it does many things."
"Orchestration of the firewall is the most valuable feature. It is a fast and agile solution. It is good with protection. It is also very easy to deploy and manage, and its user interface is easy to use."
"The dashboard is customizable as well. It gives you the feature of including what you need to see as soon as you open the dashboard and to remove the non-necessary stuff, which varies from one organization to the next and from one IT manager to the next. And it has a wide variety of reports as well, template and customizable reports."
"The VPN feature is the most valuable. It has come in handy during this period when people are working from home. The filtering feature is also valuable because you can easily filter the sites that you don't want to visit. You can also set timely surfing quotas."
"The solution has all the security features you would need for any type of environment."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"We encounter issues while generating new reports."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"The small business line has less PPS throughput."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"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."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"It is already secure but it could be better in terms of other breaches that may occur."
"Technical support is difficult to access."
"The first area that needs to be improved is customer support."
"The reports could improve, they do not seem complete and more information could be added."
"I'd like to see better reporting. While the logs are great, the reports are not."
"In the Sophos XG, the SD-WAN has all the rules done separately, such as net policy routing. In the previous version, they were all in a single rule and everything was done that way. The way it is now is difficult for us because we are not used to this newer version. The firewall rules should be easier to configure and create. Everything should be done with a single click."
"The user interface could be better."
"I think that the main area for improvement is the quality assurance of the updates."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Meraki MX and Sophos UTM. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos XG report.
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