We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Huawei NGFW 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 solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"It's got the capabilities of amassing a lot of throughput with remote access and VPNs."
"Cisco tech is always good and helpful. I would rate them as 10 out of 10."
"The Firepower+ISE+AMP for endpoint integration is something that really stands it out with other vendor solutions. They have something called pxGrid and i think it is already endorsed by IETF. This allows all devices on the network to communicate."
"It is much better than most of the other firewalls that I have worked with."
"The most valuable features for my client are the ASDM and monitoring."
"IPSec Tunnel and AnyConnect (of course), the context awareness was a good feature, but clumsy at the beginning. I think it's better now."
"They are easy to maintain."
"We have been using a 5520 for seven years in our datacenter and we are satisfied by this version."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The UI is quite good."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"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."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"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."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"They should allow customers to talk to them directly instead of having to go through the reseller."
"In today's world, cyberattacks have become a common occurrence. However, so far, we have not faced any issues with our systems. I hope the situation remains the same in the future. If Cisco introduces even more advanced security measures, it would be beneficial."
"They need to do an overhaul of the management console."
"It is hard to collaborate with our filtered environment."
"Also, they have a Firepower source file that I can work on the ASA device and on Firepower devices. A problem here lies in the way that you manage these devices. Some devices do not support the FMC, and some devices have to be managed through ASDM, and others have to be managed through FMC."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"The worst part of the entire solution, and this is kind of trivial at times, is that management of the solution is difficult. You manage FireSIGHT through an internet browser. I've had Cisco tell me to manage it through Firefox because that's how they develop it. The problem is, depending on the page you're on, they don't function in the same way. The pages can be very buggy, or you can't resize columns in this one, or you can't do certain things in that one. It causes a headache in managing it."
"Most users do not have awareness of this product's functionality and features. Cisco should do something to make them aware of them. That would be quite excellent and useful to organizations that are still using legacy data-center-security products."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"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 solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Fortinet FortiOS and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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