We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and SonicWall NSa 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."Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"It's very easy to configure."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"It is a safe product."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The UI is quite good."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"Setup is easy. Anyone with basic firewall experience can do it."
"The most valuable features of this solution are intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and the advanced capture client, which provides live traffic analysis."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"Support has improved dramatically since their separation from Dell."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"It has excellent stability."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"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 solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"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 product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"I would like U.S.-based technical support."
"It is very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors."
"The ongoing service fees are high."
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
"The stability is not there. The features are there, but they are not stable. They need to improve on this product because I feel that they have launched this product without much R&D."
"The reporting and monitoring are a bit complex and should be easier in SonicWall NSa because other firewalls I have experienced have been more simple, such as Palo Alto. We are able to receive a clear view of our network. As a general user with little experience, it would be difficult for them to handle."
"Customer support is severely lacking with very slow response times."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and OPNsense, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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