# SonicWall NGFW: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/sonicwall-ngfw

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Next-generation firewalls](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/next-generation-firewalls/index.md) | 0% | 73 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Researchers at Bishop Fox discovered over 178,000 unpatched SonicWall NGFW devices vulnerable to denial-of-service and potentially remote code execution attacks" (MiniMax M2.5, Firewalls)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named SonicWall NGFW, from 1 of the 1 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- aviatrix.ai: 1
- cisa.gov: 1
- crn.com: 1
- ic3.gov: 1
- infosecurity-magazine.com: 1
- juniper.net: 1
- kudelskisecurity.com: 1
- linkedin.com: 1
- reddit.com: 1
- softwareadvice.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://aviatrix.ai/threat-research-center/watchguard-firebox-cisa-2024-network-vuln: 1
- https://cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-317a: 1
- https://crn.com/news/security/2024/exploitable-flaws-in-sonicwall-firewalls-have-been-largely-ignored-researchers: 1
- https://crn.com/news/security/2024/network-security-devices-are-the-front-door-to-an-it-environment-but-are-they-under-lock-and-key: 1
- https://ic3.gov/CSA/2024/240618.pdf: 1
- https://infosecurity-magazine.com/news/80-of-ngfws-fail-to-detect-evasions: 1
- https://juniper.net/us/en/products/security/next-generation-firewall-services.html: 1
- https://juniper.net/us/en/solutions/next-gen-firewall.html: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.