SonicWall Gen 8 Firewalls
By SonicWall
SonicWall's TZ and NSa appliance lines, positioned as lower-cost NGFWs for small and mid-sized organizations and the MSPs that manage them at scale. Built-in intrusion prevention with over 10,000 signatures, Capture ATP sandboxing, and DPI-SSL inspection are managed centrally through Capture Security Center across a customer's whole fleet of boxes.
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- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- On-premHybrid
- Organization size
- IndividualSMBMid-market
- Pricing tier
- $
Capability checklist
NGFWHow SonicWall Gen 8 Firewalls measures up against the full Next-Generation Firewall taxonomy.
- Application awareness — supported
- Identifies and controls traffic by application, not just by port or protocol.
- Built-in intrusion prevention — supported
- Blocks known exploit attempts and attack patterns inline, without a separate box.
- Encrypted traffic inspection — supported
- Decrypts and inspects TLS traffic to catch threats hidden inside encrypted sessions.
- URL & content filtering — supported
- Blocks access to malicious, risky, or policy-violating web categories.
- Cloud sandboxing — supported
- Detonates suspicious files in an isolated environment to catch unknown malware.
- Centralized policy management — supported
- Manages rules and logs across many firewalls and sites from one console.
- VPN & remote access — supported
- Terminates site-to-site and remote-user VPN connections on the same appliance.
Alternatives
Other Next-Generation Firewall tools with overlapping capabilities, sized for similar teams.