Sonicwall Network Security Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Sonicwall Network Security Manager

4.3

(12)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Sonicwall Network Security Manager

Sonicwall Network Security Manager (NSM) is a centralized firewall management solution that enables IT administrators to manage all firewalls, connected switches, and access points in one place. With Zero-touch provisioning, administrators can remotely deploy and implement firewalls as well as regulate access to applications and networks.

From a single console, users can streamline and organize all firewall operations, manage risks with visibility into traffic and threats, and ensure compliance by identifying misaligned policies. Summary dashboards allow users to make informed policy decisions based on real-time device and network traffic data.

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Sonicwall Network Security Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Sonicwall Network Security Manager Features

Popular features found in Firewall
Access Management
Content Filtering
Intrusion Prevention System
Network Monitoring
Next-Generation Firewall
Policy Management
More features of Sonicwall Network Security Manager
API
Hardware Integration
Intrusion Detection System
IP Filtering
Reporting/Analytics
VPN

Sonicwall Network Security Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

50%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.0

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.3

Have you used Sonicwall Network Security Manager and would like to share your experience with others?

Mark M.

Verified reviewer

Market Research

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

Good small office solution but not as durable as other products.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The sonicwall interface is easy to navigate and offers quite of bit of functionality. You can do everything through a web interface and licensing and backup are a breeze when you take advantage of mysonicwall.com. We use the sonicwall applicate in a small office and for the price and features we are quite happy with it. Firmware updates have not been an issue for us and keeping things up to date is pretty straight forward.

Cons:

While the VPN options are plentiful we have had some issues with sonicwall keeping the connections up in some cases. There are multiple ways to configure VPN and because of how we had to do it our connection sometimes goes down and we have to log into the device and stop / start the VPN connection in order for it to get connected again.

Reasons for choosing Sonicwall Network Security Manager

Sonicwall was cheaper for this use case and gave us the features we required.

Reasons for switching to Sonicwall Network Security Manager

We scaled down the organization and no longer needed such an expensive product.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2024

All in one

multiple sites remote management is easy and keeps the original management interfaces

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's a really great product for managing branches and different clients in one admin platform, the advanced gateway security gives me a complete overview of all my deployments and makes easier the management of the firewalls

Cons:

The ability to integrate older hardware,

Reasons for choosing Sonicwall Network Security Manager

Product functionality and performance, Strong consulting partnership, the expertise

Brian K S.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2024

SonicWall Security Firewall

Not bad considering the price paid, but in my professional opinion, the cost savings are not worth it. Other firewall solutions are more robust, easier to setup, configure and manage. Overall, not bad for the money.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

affordable, less expensive than the standard brand options

Cons:

not as intuitive as other firewalls, security software suite is thin, can be difficult to find and modify some options

Reasons for choosing Sonicwall Network Security Manager

price, affordability. Business had a limited budget.

Umurhan K.

Verified reviewer

Sports

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

user comment

The fact that Sonicwall Network Manager is very expensive as a license was one of the main problems for us. In addition, users were constantly experiencing problems during the disconnection or connection stages, and this was constantly causing us problems.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The feature I like about this software is that it is reliable and fast connection can be established.

Cons:

There is no topic that I like very little, although I use it both as a user and as an administrator, I could not see a drawback.

Reasons for choosing Sonicwall Network Security Manager

Due to the price difference between the two, the cheaper company was selected.

Reasons for switching to Sonicwall Network Security Manager

The license fee is very expensive. And the really high fee for a vpn program is due to its low performance.

Muhammad B.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

A complete solution for mid-to-large organization

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The product has phenomenal technical support team.

Cons:

Its VPN solution may need improvement as the throughput gets impacted when the number of VPN users are transferring files across the network

André L.

Verified reviewer

Chemicals

501-1000 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Very good option to protect your network

It is interesting, because we have been using it to protect the network, and also as a VPN manager, it has their own management appliance, with clients which we can install it on the computers, or you can choose to use the directly Windows configuration. Therefore, it covers L2TP, PPTP, L2F and SSL VPN, which gave us a bunch of options to choose.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is a robust solution, with so many features, roles, and options to configure and customize a firewall solution for your own network, working with various different protocols, covering the most used on the market, including a VPN based on different procotols.

Cons:

It is difficult to find some options inside it, is not intuitive, to block a site, IP or file type, you will spend some time to understand it, need to be a midtier on network skills, not a product for beginners.

Nebojsa P.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Safe network

One of the safest soltions on the market, very hard to fail. Have been used over many years with minimal numer of incidents.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very easy and visible way configuring a safe network. Many great dashboards, and quick information access and full logging. Easy deployment of networks through multiple interfaces. Integration with other tools. Access to security definitions from the Cloud.

Cons:

Initial configuration is time consuming and the system is a bit pricy.

David M.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Good Solution for the Small Business -

We have been able to implement more security for our more advanced IP tunnels and manage what users can use VPN while away from the office during these hard times

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software offers all essential needs for the small business. It’s able to more than what is expected for software of this price but above average IT knowledge is required to use everything properly

Cons:

While having minor issues and bugs with the system it took there team and a third party IT company to resolve the issue. Hoping to see customer service improve as this issues come up. Still happy with there tenacity to resolve the issue

Michael M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Decent Network Security Manager