SonicWall TZ

Our company purchases and technically maintains it infrastructure and networks for small to midsize businesses and we occasionally using SonicWall TZ firewall appliances in upgrades and setups of network security for our clients. It provides firewall protection, antivirus, remote access SSL VPN, as well as branch office (site to site) VPN between multiple locations of our organization.

• Over 99% uptime for our network
• No network based threats in the past 5 years

WatchGuard Network Security, UBIqube Solutions and Fortinet FortiGate

Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Malwarebytes, N-able N-sight RMM, N-able N-central, Sentinel

We have a pair of SonicWall TZ working in a HA configuration - these are running our production, telephony, guest and maintenance vlans. With full DPI, SSO and Capture ATP activate and fully integrated with our on prem AD. This allows full minitoring and scanning of all our traffic with minimal overheads being noticed

• Has reduced downtime for updates
• Alterted us to several VPN attacks - over 50 since install allowing us to take relevant action
• HA saved us over 7 days downtime when a power spike damaged the main unit

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

Bitdefender GravityZone, Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

We are longtime SonicWall TZ customers and currently use a TZ270W to support our SMB - 15 user operation. Being a smaller organization we do no have on-site technical resources so a few of us step in to handle basic functions like applying firmware upgrades. In the past we have reached out to SonicWall TZ Support for configuration issues. Security is a complex topic and we feel we are protected with SonicWall TZ but could use more assistance to make sure our configuration utilizes the options that the SonicWall TZ presents.

In addition, we find that the wireless WIFI produces a generally weak signal unless you are in the same room as the TZ270W - we use an extender to pump up the signal into offices that are further away from the SonicWall TZ - this issue was less of a problem with our previous SonicWall TZ unit before we upgraded. Not interested in changing from SonicWall TZ - probably just have to become more proficient in managing the device.

• We were subject to a Ransomware attack several years ago and the SonicWall TZ is part of our defense from such attacks
• Cost effective from the perspective of cost for the TZ270W and the supporting license although pricing varies by source

LastPass for Business, SlideModel, Snagit, Webroot Endpoint Protection, Google Meet, Brevo

I use multiple SonicWall TZ devices across several of our locations to act as a firewall as well as enabling VPN connections back to the main office. Our business has also subscribed to the content filter and antivirus components. One of our SonicWall TZ devices also has wireless capability, which is very useful as that office location is a shared space.

• We have three SonicWall TZ devices and they are very helpful in a VPN set up.
• The subscription costs for the different features has a great return on investment. It is very well worth the money.
• The antivirus component has been very effective on the computers and servers the SonicWall TZ device protects.

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection

ServiceNow IT Asset Management, Microsoft 365, Medisoft Clinical, Laserfiche, Microsoft Teams

They provide the network firewall for our 50 locations across the East Coast. We are able to remotely able to manage them.

• Protected our business from all online threats
• Allows for remote VPNs to help increase productivity if someone needs to work from home.

Microsoft 365