SonicWall NSA Series firewall excellence
October 24, 2024

SonicWall NSA Series firewall excellence

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SonicWall NSA Series

This is a high end business-class firewall, built to handle volume while still delivering top tier protection for the organization. We have licensing for AV, anti-botnet, and secure browsing protection as well as VPN access. We use rule sets for direct connections and also filter based on Geo-IP settings. It is a multi-faceted and highly adaptable firewall.

Pros

  • Filtering
  • Site-scanning protection
  • DoS protection

Cons

  • DPI scanning
  • Sometimes a bit strict with site filtering
  • Updates sometimes fix 5 things and break something else.
  • The protection is top notch.
  • The HA (high availability) feature is a life-saver if you have 2 circuits/ISPs.
  • SonicWall support is very good.
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.
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.

Do you think SonicWall NSA Series delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SonicWall NSA Series's feature set?

Yes

Did SonicWall NSA Series live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SonicWall NSA Series go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SonicWall NSA Series again?

Yes

This is a higher-end firewall, built for a medium to large business. It handles traffic and scanning and protection well but it would be a bit of a budget-buster and probably overkill for a small to (barely) medium sized business. SonicWall makes SoHo devices for those use cases and they would be more appropriate.

SonicWall NSA Series Feature Ratings

Firewall
8.4
Identification Technologies
9
Visualization Tools
9
Content Inspection
5
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
7
Firewall Management Console
9
Reporting and Logging
9
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
7
Proxy Server
7

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