We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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 network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiOS is great."
"The SSL VPN is fee for use is most attractive."
"All networks are security-driven, we get throughputs and security. We feel that the people at Fortinet are easy to deal with from a support standpoint. If they need to jump in and help us, they're very willing to do that. Their email filtering, their data loss prevention, their intrusion prevention, type of products in the newest OSs has been outstanding."
"The interface is easy to understand, so when there are threats you get alerts. It's quite intuitive, but if you are ever confused they have instructional videos. For example, if you don't understand a graph there's a link to a video that explains what the graph means. It makes it very user-friendly."
"Compared to other firewalls, the segmentation is much easier in FortiGate."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"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 like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"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."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"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."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"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."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"It would be great if they can push the Microsoft updates through Fortinet OS and provide a centralized patch management system. They should also include the data loss prevention (DLP) and data leakage prevention features. They could also add network monitoring more effectively."
"They need to integrate more with the SD-WAN."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting part. The reporting is only for logging data, and it's just a tabulation of the log in the report. I would like to be able to take down more information in the event of an incident."
"Fortinet FortiOS need to manage its memory and CPU utilization better. It peaks at times, which sometimes can be challenging."
"Right now, we have to contend with CLI. We'd like it to be easier. We need the features to be in a UI."
"Some features I have found to be hidden and cannot be accessed through the graphical user interface, you can only access them through the command-line interface(CLI). All the features should be accessible through the graphical user interface."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"In terms of what needs improvements, the troubleshooting could use improvement. When we work with other products like Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, and Check Point, we see a big difference in the troubleshooting. It's not easy to find a report."
"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 solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"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."
"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."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Cisco IOS Security, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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