We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and SonicWall NSa 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 next-generation firewall is great."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"It is a safe product."
"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."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"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."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the firewalling, which is very good and the GUI which is very intuitive. It is easy to use, and provides great security."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"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 doesn't seem to be very mature. Our networking team says they are experiencing a lot of issues in the firewalls and some routers."
"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."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"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."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"Potential improvement around the associated VPN cost"
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"This product is unable to secure access to endpoints for our external employees."
"The problem primarily with SonicWall is it's a Unix box. And it's all software, all the activities, blocking, censoring, everything has to happen in the software. If you start hitting the box with a lot of sessions it slows down and that's not what I expect from a firewall."
"The reporting and monitoring are a bit complex and should be easier in SonicWall NSa because other firewalls I have experienced have been more simple, such as Palo Alto. We are able to receive a clear view of our network. As a general user with little experience, it would be difficult for them to handle."
"The anti-spam requires a specific Java version on the server side (do not update it, otherwise it will break)."
"The reporting feature could be better because most of the companies want to have the analytics included, which is something that you have to buy separately."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and OPNsense, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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