We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sophos XG 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 most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"It is a safe product."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The interface is very good."
"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."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The setup is quite easy."
"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."
"One of the best things about Huawei NGFW is its ability to integrate Azure solutions. Every year, we can add new features to the firewall. The key advantage is the integration across the entire network, so it doesn't work in isolation. For example, we can manage everything with features like the secret manager or analytic IDs. The solution is straightforward. It can also detect intrusions."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"Easy to deploy and user friendly."
"I like the tunneling part which we are using for the VOIP. We have various other sites where we connect via tunneling. The tunneling part is very fast and easy to implement."
"It is stable, flexible, and easy to use. It has got a web management portal that can be accessed from anywhere."
"The most valuable is the synchronized security between Sophos XG and Sophos endpoint because it provides a lot of visibility about unknown applications. The endpoint shares the information of unknown applications, and you can learn about those applications and create policies to allow or block those applications."
"The interface is user-friendly and the product is easy to configure."
"The solution is a next generation firewall and we have gotten good customer feedback."
"Sophos is a stable solution, and we haven't had any bugs or limitations."
"IPS and advanced threat protection (ATP) are the most valuable features. I am able to segment my network traffic and block incoming connections. It is also easy to use."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"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 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 solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"Support for this product is something that is really important, and it needs to improve."
"There's an IP address delivery for our VPN client and a limited range of IP addresses. So this is a problem in the latest firmware release, but rather than using homework scenarios, we need a lot of VPN clients."
"Network security is in need of improvement."
"Lacking network access control, user profiling and analytics dashboards."
"I wish to see an antivirus feature added to the solution."
"Technical support can be slow to respond, which is something that should be improved."
"It is complicated to get the reports if you are not experienced with Sophos."
"The MTR feature needs enhancing."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sophos XG 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 Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sophos XG report.
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