We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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.
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The GUI is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The GUI is among the most valuable features,"
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and level of security that this solution provides."
"One thing I like about the product is the logging features, the way it logs, the way it forwards the logs in Syslog."
"The high-availability and remote VPN features are most valuable."
"I like all of the features."
"Being able to use it as a policy-based VPN is valuable. It's very easy to understand. It's very easy to troubleshoot."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The UI is quite good."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"The solution is very expensive."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Cisco Firepower is not completely integrated with Active Directory. We are trying to use Active Directory to restrict users by using some security groups that are not integrated within the Cisco Firepower module. This is the main issue that we are facing."
"One issue with Firepower Management Center is deployment time. It takes seven to 10 minutes and that's a long time for deployment. In that amount of time, management or someone else can ask me to change something or to provide permissions, but during that time, doing so is not possible. It's a drawback with Cisco. Other vendors, like Palo Alto or Fortinet do not have this deployment time issue."
"You shouldn't have to use the ASDM to help manage the client."
"There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. So, you need to ship it out elsewhere in order for you to store it. The only point of consideration is around that area, basically limited storage on the machine and appliance. Consider logging it elsewhere or pushing it out to a SIEM to get better controls and manipulation over the data to generate additional metrics and visibility."
"The product crashes. We have a cluster of firewalls and we regularly get failovers."
"Other products are becoming easier to access and configure. They are providing UI interfaces to configure, take backup, synchronize redundant machines, and so on. It is very easy to take backup and upgrade the images in those products. Cisco ASA should have such features. If one redundant machine is getting upgraded, the technology and support should be there to upgrade other redundant machines. In a single window, we should be able to do more in terms of backups, restores, and upgrades."
"It is confusing to have two management interfaces, e.g., ASDM and Firepower Management Center."
"There is room for improvement in the stability or software quality of the product. There were a few things in the past where we had a little bit of a problem with the product, so there is room for improvement."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"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 isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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 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 user interface could be more user-friendly."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 18 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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