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."I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The UI is quite good."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the zero-trust security architecture."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"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."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"The solution needs to improve its visibility. It's not straightforward to use. Understanding the policies, authorizations, and initializing features requires careful review. The product needs to offer proper training."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"We don't know how it will scale once we start putting more load on it."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a complex product to work with."
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, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos UTM. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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