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Sangfor NGAF pros and cons

Vendor: Sangfor

4.0 out of 5

34 reviews
90% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Sangfor NGAF offers 24/7 technical support and quick response times alongside features like VPN connectivity, WAN optimization, and comprehensive security capabilities such as ransomware detection. Its affordability surpasses Sophos, Fortinet, and SonicWall, while strong integration ensures network management. Despite needing more ports and enhanced provisioning, its few security breaches are rapidly resolved. However, licensing costs are high, and further research development is necessary for improvement.

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PROS

Sangfor excels in securing connections, web browsers, servers, and general threat protection.

Technical support is helpful and responsive, providing a 24/7 channel with quick replies.

Sangfor NGAF's affordability and feature set make it a great option for those on a budget.

SSL VPN and application control features offer precise access restrictions and threat prevention.

Performance and reliability support critical network traffic, with a focus on confidentiality and availability.

CONS

Sangfor NGAF should improve its dependency on infrastructure, ensuring DNS can operate standalone without reliance on current servers.

There are challenges in the customer support experience, with needed improvements in the knowledge and response time of the support team.

The cost of licensing is considered high when compared to other firewalls available in the market.

Sangfor NGAF could benefit from increased IPS features and refinements in application control policies.

Refinements in the setup phase would be helpful, as it is currently quite complex.

Sangfor NGAF Pros review quotes

NK

Group IT Director at United Medical

Sep 19, 2019

It seems to be a durable, stable product.

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M.IMRAN-1500894

Deputy Manager IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Feb 9, 2021

Sangfor has the best capabilities for securing connections, securing web browsers, securing servers, and general threat protection.

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Head Of Solutions at Mutex Systems

Jun 23, 2021

We've found the technical support to be helpful.

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Senior Presales Consultant at Megaplus

Jul 28, 2021

In four steps one can configure the entire firewall.

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Cipto HaryoMundito

Product Manger at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

Aug 11, 2021

While the features are not dissimilar to other brands, configuration is much more simple, which works out great for Indonesian people.

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Vidura Senadeera

Head - Enterprise Solutions Architect at NGXESS

Dec 14, 2021

The most valuable features are the WAN optimization, the internet access gateway (IAG), and the central console, which allows us to implement on their firewall.

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Daniel Gerard Diaz

Computer Programmer III at Leyte Normal University

Oct 4, 2023

We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one.

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RF

Teamlead IT Core at SoloInsight Inc.

May 24, 2022

Sangfor is a good solution that provides a WAF and firewall solution. Most other vendors, like Sophos and Fortinet and Cisco, only provide one solution. That's a valuable feature of Sangfor.

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Manager IT at Sabirs' Group

Jul 13, 2022

Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware.

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Wajeeh Ul Hasan .

Network Administrator at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology

Aug 25, 2022

The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration.

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Sangfor NGAF Cons review quotes

NK

Group IT Director at United Medical

Sep 19, 2019

They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product.

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Deputy Manager IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Feb 9, 2021

The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly.

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Head Of Solutions at Mutex Systems

Jun 23, 2021

They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall.

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Senior Presales Consultant at Megaplus

Jul 28, 2021

I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions.

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Cipto HaryoMundito

Product Manger at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

Aug 11, 2021

The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation.

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Vidura Senadeera

Head - Enterprise Solutions Architect at NGXESS

Dec 14, 2021

An area for improvement would be the number of ports defined on the box. In the next release, I would like them to develop their provisioning stage of enrolling end devices.

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Daniel Gerard Diaz

Computer Programmer III at Leyte Normal University

Oct 4, 2023

Lacks consistency in terms of filtering certain websites and applications.

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RF

Teamlead IT Core at SoloInsight Inc.

May 24, 2022

Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput.

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Manager IT at Sabirs' Group

Jul 13, 2022

The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day.

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Wajeeh Ul Hasan .

Network Administrator at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology

Aug 25, 2022

Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better.

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