We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Huawei NGFW based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The solution is scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is very easy to create the user of VPN, allowing them to use it quickly. Additionally, the integration and interface are good."
"The platform has a good user interface."
"I really like that it's internationally deployable."
"All the security features that are built into the product are valuable."
"The initial setup is very user-friendly."
"It’s easy to integrate the solution with our network infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integration within the environment, with centralized reporting."
"In spite of the solution being inexpensive, it has everything one would need."
"The support for the solution has been excellent. If we ever had an issue they would send an engineer to help us with our problem."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"We make use of the new data center, specifically the containerized data center which is built and reviewed by Huawei, including all the device's infrastructure."
"One of the best things about Huawei NGFW is its ability to integrate Azure solutions. Every year, we can add new features to the firewall. The key advantage is the integration across the entire network, so it doesn't work in isolation. For example, we can manage everything with features like the secret manager or analytic IDs. The solution is straightforward. It can also detect intrusions."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Its customer service could be better."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The reports are very basic."
"The operating system isn't stable, so it goes to memory counters every night."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"Integration could be better. Whatever devices I'm using with FortiGate are all compatible. The access points and switches are also FortiGate, so I can easily integrate them. But it would be better if we could embed other devices as well. There are compatibility issues with other brands, and we need that. We can only integrate universal brands with FortiGate. The initial setup could also be easier."
"The licensing needs to be improved. We need longer licensing periods, especially for POCs and trials. It should be for six months. Right now, it's too short of a timeframe."
"The user interface could be improved."
"They could provide more integration options with different platforms."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"It is a very good product, and it is good at standing by itself. It can maybe have a little bit of integration with other products, but it is not that important for most use cases."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"One issue is integration. Huawei can't detect Indicators of Compromise (IoC). I can get a lot of information about security, but can't automatically input the EP, domain URL, and file hashes I get from Hackersworld into my blocklist."
"The tool lacks features."
"The documentation needs to be improved. When they retire old models, they also retire the documentation. However, if you are still using an older model, you still need access to that documentation. And yet, they go ahead and removed it. It's gone. You are therefore stuck with a device with no documentation and technical support that isn't very helpful as they also remove support assistance as well."
"The solution doesn't seem to be very mature. Our networking team says they are experiencing a lot of issues in the firewalls and some routers."
"With the Huawei firewall, none of the features comes at the top. We found out later that customer support is really not good. For this firewall, because of our customers' routine, for example, every six months they'll do a penetration test to find weaknesses. So whenever they came up with VAPT reports, they are looking to Huawei for help. I think that's basically because it's a different culture. Chinese culture and our culture is different. They have always tried to help find some excuses or say some other things that cannot help you solve the problem immediately."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"One issue we've encountered with Huawei NGFW is that after using a firewall for two or three years, we need to replace it. The new firewalls often have more features and better memory or throughput. However, sometimes, they lack some features that the old ones had."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei NGFW writes "A scalable and easy-to-setup product that can be used to configure different policies for specific users". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS and OPNsense, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall NSa. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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