Azure Firewall vs SonicWall NSA Series

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Firewall is well suited for most mid sized and large sized companies that deal with thousands of users within multiple environments. Azure Firewall allows you to protect business assets by preventing malicious attacks from entering the network. Azure Firewall would be less suited for a small company that does not use a vpn or have users outside of the office as something smaller would be more appropriate.

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Technician in Customer Service

Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employees

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SonicWall NSA is an excellent mid-range firewall suitable for branch office locations that expect a lot of network traffic. The higher-end NSA can take the bandwidth requirements of thousands of users while using Deep Packet Inspection and Antivirus features. We currently have SonicWall NSA deployed in a high availability mode configuration, and amazingly can failover to the backup hardware without dropping VPN connections. SonicWall NSA series is not recommended for companies who integrate VPNs with Cisco devices, as I've had difficulties with the VPN staying up.

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Kenny McGarrity

IT Infrastructure Manager

Pace SupplyWholesale, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Pros

Azure Fire wall is easy to use
Azure fire wall is easy to set up

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Technician in Customer Service

Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Ease of configuration. Easy to add WAPs, etc.
Reliable.

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Mike Narumiya

President, Principal

Klaxon IT SolutionsHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Azure Fire wall pricing may not always be competitive

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Technician in Customer Service

Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The logging interface is voluminous and difficult to get quick and good information from.
SonicWall NSA is trying to mimic Palo Alto Network's investigative features but falls far behind.

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Kenny McGarrity

IT Infrastructure Manager

Pace SupplyWholesale, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

No score

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SonicWall NSA Series 9.0

Based on 3 answers

Cost, ease of use and reliability after implementation. It's a great and easy product to use to meet the needs of smaller organizations that want a more "legitimate" setup without going overboard or spending Cisco money. Great product. Can be rack mounted or stand alone. VPN easy to setup and update. A great product to start with and grow with in a developing organization.

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Mike Narumiya

President, Principal

Klaxon IT SolutionsHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Azure Firewall is a very competitive product that exceeds or meets the competitions offerings and is able to effectively manage a company network and securely lock down the domain environment with seamless integration and easy to use tools while offering great support assistance. We selected Azure Firewall because the customer service that comes with the product is second to none and allows us to keep maximum uptime to protect our assets.

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Verified User

Technician in Customer Service

Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employees

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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 the most preferred enterprise firewall, with SonicWall NSA being second and the rest trailing far behind.

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Kenny McGarrity

IT Infrastructure Manager

Pace SupplyWholesale, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Azure Firewall decreased our overhead by over 7%
Azure fire wall has increased efficiency within the security department

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Technician in Customer Service

Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Saved money on implementation and administration staff.
Covered the sophisticated needs of many organizations.

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Mike Narumiya

President, Principal

Klaxon IT SolutionsHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Azure Firewall Editions & Modules

Edition

Deployment	$1.25¹
Data Processing	$.016²

Per Deployment Hour
Per GB Processed

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

SonicWall NSA Series Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Feature Rating Comparison

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Pros

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Cons

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Support Rating

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Alternatives Considered

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Return on Investment

Azure Firewall

SonicWall NSA Series

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Azure Firewall Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

SonicWall NSA Series Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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