We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ability to block and make white and black lists. Additionally, the filtering of user access to websites is useful."
"The user experience is great. The graphical user interface is also good."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Performance-wise, I think FortiOS is much better than its Juniper counterpart. Based on our actual experience and performance metrics, FortiOS-based products are much better than Juniper."
"The solution is very user friendly."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"FortiOS' most valuable features are management, security, and easy updates with no downtime."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The UI is quite good."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"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."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The scalability could be better."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Its price could be better."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"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 stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The reporting for this solution could be improved. It could also be more stable and offer better pricing."
"The solution's firmware updates have significant bugs and issues."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"The reporting and monitoring could improve, they have a lot of limitations. The monitoring is not easy compared to the other firewall."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"FortiOS doesn't work well with all browsers. I think they need to do a better job of making it compatible with the various browsers that are out there."
"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."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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 user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Vectra AI, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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