We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The technical support is great."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The performance is good."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls enabled us to have better visibility overall."
"URL filtering and WildFire features are most valuable. It is very user-friendly. It is a very solid product, and it definitely works."
"Palo Alto NGFW provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities, which is very useful. This prevents us from having to go to a lot of different systems, and in some cases, many different systems in many different regions, because we are a global company with 60 remote offices around the world in 30 different countries. Its centralized platform is really what we look for in all services, whether it be security or otherwise."
"The most valuable features are application inspection and sandboxing. Application inspection decides where traffic is transmitted. If I have a perimeter report for a particular service, then other services or malicious services cannot use an open port. In this way, application inspection is doing a fantastic job. We also have a very good sandbox with almost no rate limit. It will inspect any file that comes in and goes out in a dedicated patch to identify malware. Therefore, these two things help me to protect our organization from any bad actors."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the IPS/IDS subscriptions."
"The most important part of this solution is its reliability, as it just works without any fancy features."
"It's quite nice. It's very user-friendly, powerful, and there are barely any bugs."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"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 support system could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"With the Huawei firewall, none of the features comes at the top. We found out later that customer support is really not good. For this firewall, because of our customers' routine, for example, every six months they'll do a penetration test to find weaknesses. So whenever they came up with VAPT reports, they are looking to Huawei for help. I think that's basically because it's a different culture. Chinese culture and our culture is different. They have always tried to help find some excuses or say some other things that cannot help you solve the problem immediately."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"Its scalability for on-prem deployments can be better. For an on-prem deployment, the hardware has to be replaced if the volume goes up to a certain level."
"Based on the features that I have seen so far, I do not see any room for improvement, but they can improve their CLI documentation. I haven't really seen much when it comes to CLI documentation."
"The VPN has room for improvement."
"The analytics could be improved."
"It's not so easy to scale out your security capabilities."
"People sometimes find it more expensive as compared to other solutions. There are also fewer training opportunities for Palo Alto than Cisco and other vendors."
"The solution could be simplified."
"In my opinion, the training provided is satisfactory, but there is certainly room for improvement. It would be great to have more comprehensive training at a lower cost, or even for free."
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Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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