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    SonicWall NSA Series

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe SonicWall NSA Series is the company's mid-range next generation firewall (NGFW).N/A
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    SonicWall NSA Series
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    SonicWall NSA Series
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    SonicWall NSA Series
    Considered Both Products
    SonicWall
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SonicWall NSA Series
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of SonicWall NSA Series
    Feature
    SonicWall NSA Series
    8.3
    5 Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.85 Ratings
    Visualization Tools9.05 Ratings
    Content Inspection5.04 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls9.95 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP6.94 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console9.05 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging8.95 Ratings
    VPN10.05 Ratings
    High Availability9.95 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection7.04 Ratings
    Proxy Server7.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SonicWall NSA Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)