We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Zscaler Internet Access has helped us reduce the time that we spend managing security policies by about four hours a week. We can use this time to focus on other things, especially the IT team."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"Tech support is good."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"Zscaler Internet Access's roaming user feature is most valuable and is much better compared to other secure web gateways."
"The cloud proxy and integration are some of the key features. Since there is cloud waste, we can quickly provision it and start working on the configuration. On top of that, they have added a few more features. They have integrated CASB, and file sandboxing is part of it."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"The best thing about Zscaler Internet Access is the website filtering. In the UAE it's quite an important feature because most of the malware comes through the SQL injection and through downloads from websites. Zscaler helps protect against that."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"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."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
"Zscaler should continue to make the user interface better. They should also improve the backup network and continue to expand it so that it can handle larger numbers of customers."
"Zscaler needs to add client-to-client communication. It's always client-to-server communication. The cloud and branch connectors could be improved because we're still dependent on traditional firewalls. They should eliminate this. They should also provide WAN devices should to compete with the SD-WAN solutions also."
"In every cloud service in the world, you have multiple upstream internet providers to create diversity so that if one of your providers fails, your network just continues. In South Africa, there is only one upstream provider, and that's not right. That that's a problem."
"I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again."
"One thing that needs to be improved is their presence in China. I'm not sure if that's a Zscaler thing or if it's a problem with all vendors in this space, but it would be nice to have better coverage in China. This concern is a common one for vendors across the board when dealing with the Chinese market."
"The price of the solution could be improved."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and OPNsense, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP.
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