We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 payment function for applications is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The policies are very valuable. They allow me to secure and manage future traffic effectively."
"The EPM bundle is a good feature."
"The tool improved the security in our company's virtualized environment, as it was helpful in creating an additional layer of security for the organization and for the use of the internet."
"The web GUI is easy to use."
"The setup is simple."
"Technical support is very helpful."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The setup is quite easy."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"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."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"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."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"In the first two releases of FortiOS 5.6, we had some trouble with the SSL VPN service. Sometimes it stopped working, and the IPS daemon too."
"They could simplify the troubleshooting process."
"To improve FortiGate-VM, Fortinet needs to harden it more. For example, if you are using Hyper-V, then you need guidelines for hardening FortiGate-VM that are specific to the Hyper-V environment. If it's VMware, there should be at least a guideline on how to harden the firewall."
"The pricing is expensive."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"Areas for improvement would be application control and web filtering."
"There were challenges during setup, and many of them were self-inflicted."
"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."
"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."
"The tool lacks features."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"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 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."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". 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 FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS and OPNsense, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall NSa. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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