Forcepoint NGFW vs. SonicWall NSA Series

Forcepoint NGFW

SonicWall NSA Series

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Forcepoint NGFW	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall delivers network security at scale. They can be deployed from anywhere through the Secure Management Console (SMC) and unify policy management, incident response and reporting.	$900 one-time fee (approx)
SonicWall NSA Series	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	The SonicWall NSA Series is the company's mid-range next generation firewall (NGFW).	N/A

Pricing

Forcepoint NGFW

SonicWall NSA Series

Editions & Modules

Forcepoint NGFW N60: $900
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N120: $1314
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N350: $7850
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N1200: $13600
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N2200: $36000
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N3400 & N3500: varies
one-time fee

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Forcepoint NGFW	SonicWall NSA Series
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Firewalls are bought predominately through partners and third-party VARs. Pricing for purchase and lease and support options vary by reseller.

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Forcepoint NGFW	SonicWall NSA Series
Considered Both Products	Forcepoint NGFW NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Chose Forcepoint NGFW There are similar hardware and license costs between the two products. The Forcepoint NGFW product is by far easier to use and manage. Incentivized Helpful?	SonicWall NSA Series Verified User Anonymous Chose SonicWall NSA Series Palo Alto appears to have a better product portfolio that allows you to have everything integrated and therefore, have a single pane of glass. However, Palo Alto is much more expensive than SonicWall NSA Series, so it was hard for us to justify the higher price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SonicWall NSA Series The SonicWall NSA is a lot more fluid and much less clunky than a Watchguard firewall. The Watchguard is ok for a small business-- you can buy them at retail outlets. But as you can see above, this model of Watchguard Firebox has been discontinued. The NSA classes are a … Incentivized Helpful? GJ Geoff Johnson Network System Administrator Chose SonicWall NSA Series We compared the FortiGate to Sonicwall and continued with Sonicwall as we were a mid-size school where the Sonicwall was performing adequately, and the learning curve was steep to switch platforms. The Sonicwall offered everything the Fortigate did, and was not as costly, both … Incentivized Helpful? KM Kenny McGarrity IT Infrastructure Manager Chose SonicWall NSA Series SonicWall NSA series interface is way better than either Watchguard or Checkpoint. Even though people want to dismiss SonicWall NSA, they have the advanced features of its competitors, but with the easy interface. With all things being equal, I consider Palo Alto Networks to be … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Narumiya President, Principal Chose SonicWall NSA Series Looked at a variety of offerings from Cisco. For larger organizations, a good route to go. For smaller that need just a little bit more than residential equipment, or even to have the some solid performance and configurations (smaller businesses) Sonicwall is a great way to … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Forcepoint NGFW

SonicWall NSA Series

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Forcepoint NGFW 8.1 Ratings 6% below category average	SonicWall NSA Series 8.3 Ratings 4% below category average
Identification Technologies	5.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Visualization Tools	5.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Content Inspection	10.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	10.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	8.00 Ratings	6.90 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	10.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	8.00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
VPN	9.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
High Availability	9.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	7.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Proxy Server	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Forcepoint NGFW	SonicWall NSA Series
Small Businesses	pfSense Score 9.9 out of 10	pfSense Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Quantum Firewalls and Security Gateways Score 9.6 out of 10	Quantum Firewalls and Security Gateways Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series Score 10.0 out of 10	Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Forcepoint NGFW	SonicWall NSA Series
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Forcepoint NGFW	SonicWall NSA Series
Likelihood to Recommend	If you are looking for a smaller network/security team, the ease and low complexity create an easy to manage environment. One engineer can easily manage 100 nodes/locations. If you are just starting to get security conscious and predict regular adjustments to policy, routing, and access, this is a very good system for making easy to understand and low impact changes on a regular basis without operations interruption. Incentivized NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Read full review	SonicWall NSA is best suited for small to mid-size companies or small to medium K-12 school districts. It's less appropriate for larger businesses and schools. This is due to their ease of use and well-rounded feature set but lacks in advanced configuration, performance, and reliability. Incentivized GJ Geoff Johnson Network System Administrator Read full review
Pros	Easy to manage and make changes on - ACL's are done with ease. Easy USB initial configuration - The easy initial setup of a new location and firewall saves massive time. Settings are automatically pushed to new nodes upon contact with the controller. Low Complexity - This system does not have a lot of complexity requiring extra hours, training, or personnel to manage. Incentivized NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Read full review	Relatively inexpensive compared to some of the higher-end products, like Palo Alto Networks. Easy to set up, as the SonicWall NSA interface is consistent across all models. Incentivized KM Kenny McGarrity IT Infrastructure Manager Read full review
Cons	Poor Reporting - It exists but even when calling in to support for assistance, they have no idea how to tackle customizing reports or searching for specific data. Incentivized NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Read full review	Ideal with smaller businesses. Would have to examine for more complex needs of larger businesses. Scalability might be an issue for super large organizations. Mike Narumiya President, Principal Read full review
Usability	The Graphical User Interface is very easy to read, understand and work with. The usability of this product is very high. Incentivized NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Read full review	The usability takes a bit of training, like any firewall, but I've found that showing even Tier 1 helpdesk how to do basic things has been easy. We have entry-level IT technicians performing white-listing, IP entries, VPN access and LDAP functions, to name a few tasks. The menus in the GUI are pretty straight forward. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Support has varied over the history of the company. Terro is a name that comes up often with the best of service from this company. Incentivized NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Read full review	Most of the time, calling SonicWall NSA Support, you get an expert who can help resolve your issues. RMAs are pretty easy once they determine there is an issue with the hardware. Support is available 24x7, which makes emergency calls easy. The only downside is the support engineers may have thick accents; however, their expertise more than makes up for any language barriers. Incentivized KM Kenny McGarrity IT Infrastructure Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	There are similar hardware and license costs between the two products. The Forcepoint NGFW product is by far easier to use and manage. Incentivized NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Read full review	The SonicWall NSA is a lot more fluid and much less clunky than a Watchguard firewall. The Watchguard is ok for a small business-- you can buy them at retail outlets. But as you can see above, this model of Watchguard Firebox has been discontinued. The NSA classes are a more high-end and functional business-class firewall. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Efficiency/Productivity increase. The company moved from Cisco firewall and routing hardware to Forcepoint NGFW. It now takes fewer people and fewer hours to manage the new product. This has allowed the company to put the man-hours to use on other projects and tasks. Long term viability. This has been a concern in the past when the company started as Stonegate, merged to become Stonesoft then got purchased by McAfee, then McAfee got purchased by Intel. However, with Forcepoint the product seems to have found a stable home. Low complexity. The Web GUI based system for management has reduced the cost of personnel and training required. There is no longer a need for the company to have higher trained and higher salary cost employees to manage the system. Mid-level admins at lower salaries are capable of managing the GUI based system with ease. Incentivized NE Nick Erwin Network Admin Read full review	It is a firewall appliance at an affordable price compared to other firewall vendors. It is reliable and thus, allows our business to operate without any hiccups. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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