We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and SonicWall NSa 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."Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"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."
"User friendly and intuitive."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"It has good reporting, the reporting is marvelous."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"It is able to fulfill my requirements. It protects our network environment. It has control over IPS, signatures, and it can also manage bandwidth and mapping. It is also stable and has good support."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the firewalling, which is very good and the GUI which is very intuitive. It is easy to use, and provides great security."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Backup can be improved."
"Its customer service could be better."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"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."
"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 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 would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"I feel that the SSL VPN client software needs a lot of improvement."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"The dashboard must be improved."
"I would like to see better integration."
"It is very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"The user interface could be better."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Zscaler Internet Access, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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