Provides effective threat prevention and helps improve security
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution as a firewall for our offices.
What is most valuable?
The product helps improve our security. We use SonicWall NSv on Azure. It’s a basic firewall. It's similar to all the other firewalls. The tool provides effective threat prevention. It simplifies our security operations. There is no direct connectivity to the VMs. We have everything on the host machine. There, we have the internal switches. So, the network layer has more security.
What needs improvement?
We face some challenges when we upgrade the solution. If I use NSv 400, I can't upgrade to the next generation. We cannot upgrade the VM to the next generation. We have to rebuild a new VM and copy the configurations. We cannot upgrade straightaway. The solution must allow us to upgrade the same machine to a newer version without many changes.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for more than ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Since we have enabled the product in a fresh environment, there is no downtime.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product’s scalability is good. We can upgrade easily.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team is very good. We can contact the team by phone or email.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment is straightforward. We get the image and deploy it in Azure. The configuration takes a day.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The tool is moderately priced. We need to purchase an additional license for NSM. We can manage all the firewalls through NSM. Otherwise, we would have to connect each location manually to manage the devices. With NSM, we can connect and manage all the firewalls globally. We can push the policies across all the firewalls in one go.
What other advice do I have?
We use SonicWall’s Content Filtering, Gateway, and IPS security tools. Most solutions have similar features. When we deployed the tool in our organization, it had all the technical functionality we needed. It is still relevant and fits our requirements. Currently, we are on Azure. Before, we had an on-premises setup. We were using VMware for our on-premises setup. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
Product not working in AWS
Can not access console after deployment. Can not SSH as well. Can ping after enabling ICMP in firewall. Try to login using serial console, but credentials are not working. Crazy !!!
Great Firewall and UIs but Bad Customer Support
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, great UI, long lifespan of hardware, implementation is on the easier side
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer support is terrible and lacking compared to other vendors, budget product offered by Dell, need to fine tune the devices in order to get the most out of them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps block against cyber attacks (malware, ransomware, viruses, intrustions, botnets, spyware, trojans, worms, and other malicious attacks), assesses and mitigates risk, and provides an ease of management for firewalls.
User friendly Product (Sonicwall)
What do you like best about the product?
it was very best and user friendlly product
good security features available in sonicwall
acractive dashboard
easy configuration and troubleshoot
ease to intregare with any 3rd party product
What do you dislike about the product?
As per my obsevervation the customer support is litel bit delayed
SMS and firewall intregation tricky
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it was provide us the security from the attackers and threads
when i install sonicwall FW the Network management sovled for me.
I have solved the routing and ACL problen when i deployed the sonicwall.
SonicWall Reveiw
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to Manage,Configure and implement. Flexible Licensing option, Competetive Trade in options,Secure Upgrade Plans above all efficient network security.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much. But response time for the email support could have been improve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Sonicwall for Network Security,VPN and user management. This is easy to license,manage and configure.
Best security Manager.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Smooth customer support. It has multiple numbers of features. Ease of integration. frequently use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Costly.lack of availablity wire less solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accessbility of the network which maintains the safety protocol. Established safe and secure connection.
Decent VPN solution for your organization
What do you like best about the product?
1) It let you access your organization applications remotely from any network.
2) It provides you faster and secured access to your corporate network and applications.
3) Multi Factor Authentication can be integrated with it to provide additional layer of security.
What do you dislike about the product?
Never faced any issue with Sonicwall till now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It enabled us to access organization applications remotely from any network whether it is broadband connection or mobile hotapot.
We able to access organization applications 24x7, even from home.
The Best VPN solution
What do you like best about the product?
The solution is try and buy and this allow every size of company to secure the remote access. IF you want to connect to your site without worries this is the brand
What do you dislike about the product?
No good marketing about their product. Many worst product in my opinion have best advertising
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Remote Access
Much preferred dealing with WatchGuard Firewalls
What do you like best about the product?
Liked the VPN, the Content Filtering. The Anti-Malware feature is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the logging feature of this firewall was bit more robust.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SonicWall has been a part of our corporate Firewall strategy and we used them to compare to our existing Firewall partners.
Sonicwall is used as a security firewall
What do you like best about the product?
One of the best thing is like the most about the sonicwall is. it isprovide the security over the internet as well as traditional environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing for sonicwall is to dislike as par my experience it is provide all the services which I need to use .anyone can easy to implement.there are lots of customer support if you have any problem.there are lots of company are using sonicwall so the frequency is lot.lots of features are provided by the sonicwall to the user.you can easily integrate the sonicwall in your environment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sonicwall is solving the security issue over cloud and also in traditional environment.