We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"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."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"In the newer version, there are 3850s, all of them are scalable. They fit better into the medium or small businesses."
"With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"The VM-Series scalability is fast and easy to implement, improving our security posture as our Azure network grows."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"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."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"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."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"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."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"Recently, they introduced their Prisma Cloud solution. Compared to the previous technologies, like Panorama, which is used for centralized firewall management, or even the individual firewalls, it's a bit challenging to integrate the traditional firewall policies into Prisma Cloud."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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