We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 initial installation is very straightforward."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The technical support is great."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The best part about FortiGate-VM is its strong security."
"The thing that I like the most is that they're very willing to work with us to resolve issues that they haven't taken care of before in their product."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is very easy to create the user of VPN, allowing them to use it quickly. Additionally, the integration and interface are good."
"We are able to closely monitor the usages of individual users and see their usage habits and other items, including the data itself, which gives us quite a bit of visibility."
"The product is easy to implement."
"It is highly scalable because it has a mesh architecture that allows consistent policies."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the servers, analyzer, and track protection."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"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 solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"There are certain GUI features that should be present but are not."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"Integration could be better. Whatever devices I'm using with FortiGate are all compatible. The access points and switches are also FortiGate, so I can easily integrate them. But it would be better if we could embed other devices as well. There are compatibility issues with other brands, and we need that. We can only integrate universal brands with FortiGate. The initial setup could also be easier."
"Web filtering is a feature that needs some improvement. There should be some additional features to allow active users to change their own passwords."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"There should be integration with an active directory — with Microsoft."
"Deployment can be difficult and they could dispense with reliance on FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"With FortiGate, we sometimes encounter bugs in various operating systems."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"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 requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The tool lacks features."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". 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". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and SonicWall NSa. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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