We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 is scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering 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."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"The feature that I have found the most useful is that it meets all our requirements technically."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the zero-trust security architecture."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"The reports are very basic."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"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."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"One issue is integration. Huawei can't detect Indicators of Compromise (IoC). I can get a lot of information about security, but can't automatically input the EP, domain URL, and file hashes I get from Hackersworld into my blocklist."
"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."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The tool is very costly."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
"Recently, they introduced their Prisma Cloud solution. Compared to the previous technologies, like Panorama, which is used for centralized firewall management, or even the individual firewalls, it's a bit challenging to integrate the traditional firewall policies into Prisma Cloud."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"People are less aware of Palo Alto."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos UTM. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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