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."All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Palo Alto offers better Layer 7 protection than competing solutions by Cisco and Fortinet. I also like the VPN client more. The interface is simple, so administrators can deploy and configure it much faster than other firewalls"
"The feature that I like the most is its IPS model, the WildFire model. I really like how the whole threat protection model functions, including the vulnerability and anti-spyware aspects. That is really awesome."
"Application control, IPS, and sandboxing towards the cloud are the most valuable features. It is a very user-friendly product with a very easy-to-use interface."
"Some of the valuable features in this solution are traffic monitoring, GUI functionality, and it very easy to troubleshoot if there is any problem that happens."
"The most important feature is the firewall. We can make rules to filter the application layer of traffic. It's a very helpful feature."
"With App-ID, we can identify exact traffic. Even if someone tries to fool the firewall with a different port number, or with the correct port number, Palo Alto is able to identify what kind of traffic it is."
"The application awareness feature that recognizes application IDs and vulnerability protection are Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' most valuable features."
"One of the things I really like about it is that we have the same features and functions available on the entry-level device (PA-220), as do large corporations with much more costly appliances."
"It enables us to not only detect but also prevent various types of incoming threats, allowing us to take appropriate corrective actions and exercise control over the network."
"You might try Sangfor if you are on a tight budget. The price is affordable, and Sangfor offers a lot of features. We don't have any complaints about Sangfor."
"The level of support provided to local companies is good. They transform their application control and other settings according to that country."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"In four steps one can configure the entire firewall."
"The most valuable features are the WAN optimization, the internet access gateway (IAG), and the central console, which allows us to implement on their firewall."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"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."
"Interface could be improved visually and simplified."
"The bugs can be improved."
"Personally, I feel that their dashboards for reporting and things like that need some improvement."
"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."
"There are some advanced features that we aren't able to use, which include active IP authentication and app ID. We are facing challenges with implementing those two features."
"Palo Alto needs to provide more support during the design phase and with proposals. They need to be more proactive, try to anticipate issues, and then help us to implement the transformation quickly."
"Having a better pricing model would make this product more competitive, and more affordable for our customers."
"Sangfor has recently increased their prices."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"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."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"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."
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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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