We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The technical support is great."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The setup is quite easy."
"We make use of the new data center, specifically the containerized data center which is built and reviewed by Huawei, including all the device's infrastructure."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The most effective features of the solution for threat prevention are Layer 7 inspection, SSL decryption, IPS, and the web filtering profile."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"It needs more available central management."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The tool lacks features."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"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 solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"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."
"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."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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