Case Study: City of Niceville, Florida achieves centralized security and lower TCO with SonicWall TZ firewalls

City of Niceville, Florida - Customer Case Study

City of Niceville, Florida faced distributed-site security challenges — enforcing a uniform advanced security platform across multiple locations, easing centralized firewall management, consolidating security and networking features, and defending against ransomware, zero-day and encrypted/document threats. After evaluating Cisco, WatchGuard, Palo Alto Networks and Barracuda, the city deployed SonicWall TZ firewalls (with VPNs back to their main NSA 4650 appliances), leveraging features like ATP sandboxing, Zero-Touch Deployment and an integrated VPN.

SonicWall’s TZ line gave Niceville a single pane of glass for managing offsite locations, simplified deployment and networking, and met or exceeded performance and security expectations. The city reported measurable benefits including improved business-process efficiency, reduced IT infrastructure costs and a lowered total cost of ownership, while rating SonicWall TZ as superior in security effectiveness, value and ease of management.

City of Niceville, Florida

Jessie Mason

Network Administrator