We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sangfor NGAF 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 reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The SD-WAN function is very developed. It has SD-WAN functionality with security features in one device. We can manage from one single console SD-WAN and the security policy."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"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 am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The UI is quite good."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"In terms of the most valuable features, the IPS report is quick and updated. Performance is also valuable."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"While the features are not dissimilar to other brands, configuration is much more simple, which works out great for Indonesian people."
"The price versus value is good because the solution is less expensive than Sophos, Fortinet, or SonicWall."
"You might try Sangfor if you are on a tight budget. The price is affordable, and Sangfor offers a lot of features. We don't have any complaints about Sangfor."
"It offers application control features."
"Sangfor NGAF's standout feature is its powerful application control, enabling precise restrictions on mobile user access to approved applications."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"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."
"The tool lacks features."
"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 WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"There is room for improvement in dependency on certain infrastructure, like the DNS dependency on the current DNS server that the company has. It should be standalone. It should not depend on any other DNS server."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
"I would be happy if Sangfor developed a firewall designed specifically for home use, as well as for small businesses such as clinics and so on. A household version of the Sangfor firewall for your personal computer or laptop would be ideal, in my opinion."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Sophos UTM. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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