We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The solution is scalable."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The scalability is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the security provided by the ATP."
"The solution does a great job of identifying malicious items and vulnerabilities with URL filtering."
"They are regularly releasing new versions that include more integration with third-party services."
"Decryption is one of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' best features because we can decrypt by category. For instance, we can decrypt everything except for bank traffic so that we don't interfere with the passwords and two-factor authentication of those checking their bank accounts at work. We can still monitor for malware and other threats that come through a secure channel. It's seamless for users. The URL filtering and IPS are both great as well."
"The best feature is the packet inspection; compared to solutions like Cisco and FortiGate, Palo Alto's packet inspection is much less CPU intensive, allowing it to detect threats embedded within packages more quickly and efficiently."
"It's very important that Palo Alto NG Firewalls embed machine learning into the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. That increases our security posture... The firewall is able to capture it and flag it and it is easy to mitigate as soon as we see something like that happening, to secure the environment more, in real time."
"Mechanically, all firewalls work in a similar fashion, but what makes Palo Alto different is that it also has some of the threat hunt capabilities. It is a little bit better than other vendors."
"Sangfor is a good solution that provides a WAF and firewall solution. Most other vendors, like Sophos and Fortinet and Cisco, only provide one solution. That's a valuable feature of Sangfor."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"Sangfor NGAF's standout feature is its powerful application control, enabling precise restrictions on mobile user access to approved applications."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"Particularly good in the DPI where we can inspect inbound and outbound traffic."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"We would like to see improvement in the web interface for this solution, so that it can handle updates without manual intervention to put the data in order."
"The solution could be more cost-effective."
"The level of control and granularity in terms of rule customization could be enhanced. However, compared to our previous solution, Palo Alto provides much better drill-down capabilities."
"The price could be more friendly, which would be good for Palo Alto and us. If the price were a little lower, then it would be a viable option for mid-level businesses, who may not be able to deploy at the current price point."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The price is high and has room for improvement."
"Overall it is good. It is reliable and easy to understand. However, the monitoring feature could be improved."
"Generating reports is not so easy."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"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."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"The tool is expensive."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 164 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Stormshield Network Security, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW, Fortinet FortiOS and Huawei NGFW. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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