We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"The most valuable features are the intrusion prevention system and the anti-virus."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"FortiOS's most valuable feature is a next-generation firewall that can be used as the APT solution in advanced threat protection."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"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."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"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 would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"The solution's graphic interface could be a bit more responsive and include notations when changes are made."
"Their first-level support is often poorly trained."
"Fortinet FortiOS need to manage its memory and CPU utilization better. It peaks at times, which sometimes can be challenging."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"They're using a lot of application-specific IC, so that may be causing some performance issues. And whenever a Fortinet adds new features, it can affect performance."
"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 does not have sandboxing features."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The tool lacks features."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"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 WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Cisco IOS Security, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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