We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate 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 base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"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."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The technical support is great."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The UI is quite good."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"One issue is integration. Huawei can't detect Indicators of Compromise (IoC). I can get a lot of information about security, but can't automatically input the EP, domain URL, and file hashes I get from Hackersworld into my blocklist."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". 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 is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Sophos XG. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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