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 next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The UI is quite good."
"The setup is quite easy."
"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."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"It is a stable solution."
"The price versus value is good because the solution is less expensive than Sophos, Fortinet, or SonicWall."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration."
"The level of support provided to local companies is good. They transform their application control and other settings according to that country."
"Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"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 user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"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 solution does not have sandboxing features."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"Lacks consistency in terms of filtering certain websites and applications."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
"Sangfor could improve by providing better real-time reporting, as the current reports don't offer the level of detail we need, especially for runtime insights."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th 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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