We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Netgate pfSense 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 main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The solution is stable."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The UI is quite good."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"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."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The solution is very easy to use and has a very nice GUI."
"It's a good solution for end-users. It's pretty easy to work with."
"I have found the firewall portion for the blocking most valuable."
"My company mainly works in the health and educational domain, schools and universities. I prevent the improper use of content from schools and universities. I defend the medical records for the patients in our hospitals. That is the main use case for me for the firewall."
"It is a stable solution. It is also easy to install and can be deployed and maintained by one team member."
"Open source and support are valuable. I have community support."
"The solution is fairly scalable when it comes to integrating with other applications and data sets."
"pfSense is a nice product, and I find that there's a lot of information out there. There are some good tutorials on YouTube and other websites with helpful information."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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 solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"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 isn't cheap. It's market price."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"I would like to see different graphs available in the reporting."
"I believe improving integration with various antivirus vendors could be beneficial."
"Ease of use is a problem for a user who is unfamiliar with this product because, in the interface, everything has to be set manually."
"The solution could improve by having centralized management and API support online."
"The usage reports can be better."
"Other solutions provide more scope for growth. For instance, we can have only 10 to 20 employees on VPN, but other solutions can support more users. We also have more capabilities to increase the performance of the solution."
"This product needs improvements with respect to reporting and auditing."
"Many people have problems setting up the web cache for the web system."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Netgate pfSense 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Fortinet FortiOS and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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