We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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 security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The solution can scale well."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"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 user interface is very, very good."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The UI is quite good."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"The solution is scalable."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"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 IPS feature must be improved."
"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 tool lacks features."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"It would be better if they improved their policy, package visibility, and flexibility while we're creating rules for inspection. It could also be cheaper or more things could be included in the basic package. In the next release, I would like better coverage in the Asia Pacific region and better quality of service."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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