We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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."Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The most valuable features of Cisco firewalls are the IPS and IDS items. We find them very helpful. Those are the biggest things because we have some odd, custom-made products in our environment. What we've found through their IPS and IDS is that their vulnerability engines have caught things that are near-Zero-day items, inside of our network."
"The Packet Tracer is a really good tool. If someone calls because they're having problems, you can easily create fake traffic without having to do an extended packet capture. You can see, straight away, if there's a firewall rule allowing that traffic in the direction you're trying to troubleshoot."
"The most valuable feature would be ASDM. The ability to go in, visualize and see the world base in a clear and consistent manner is very powerful."
"It provides security for our company and users."
"The solution's dashboard is fine, and in terms of support, Cisco is better than other OEMs in the market."
"Its ability to discover attacks is a valuable feature. All of the other features that have to do with security are good."
"The most valuable feature is the anti-malware protection. It protects the endpoints on my network."
"The command line is the same as it is on the Cisco iOS router."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"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."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Virtual patching would be helpful for servers that are not able to update patches due to compatibility issues."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"The configuration in Firepower Management Center is very slow. Deployment takes two to three minutes. You spend a lot of time on modifications. Whereas, in FortiGate, you press a button, and it takes one second."
"They need a VTI. I know it's going to be available in the next software version, which is the 6.7 version. However, the problem with that is that the 6.7 is going to deprecate all the older IKEv1 deployment tunnels. Therefore, the problem is that we have a lot of customers which are using older encryptions. If I do that, update it, it's not going to work for me."
"It would be better if we could manage all of our firewalls as a set rather than individually. I would like to see a single pane of glass type of option. We also use another vendor's firewalls and they have a centralized management infrastructure that we have implemented. This infrastructure is a bit easier to manage."
"One of the challenges we've had with the Cisco ASA is the lack of a strong controller or central management console that is dependable and reliable all the time."
"Usually, the customers are satisfied, but I am going to recommend that all clients upgrade to FirePOWER management. I want Cisco to improve the feature called anti-spam. We use a Cisco only email solution, that's why we need the anti-spam on email facility."
"I would like the ability to pick and choose different features of it to run in a packaged infrastructure or modules, therefore I would like to have more customizability over it."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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