We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and OPNsense 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."I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"What I like the most about OPNsense is that it offers an easy-to-use dashboard for device management and control."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Application management can be improved."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"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."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"The reporting part could be better."
"I would like to see better SD-WAN performance."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"The only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform."
"The interface isn't so friendly user. But we have some technicians here who are quite confident with this tool. OPNSense could maybe add sets of rules so it's simpler to manage different groups with particular needs."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while OPNsense 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 OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Zscaler Internet Access, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Huawei NGFW vs. OPNsense report.
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