We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sophos XG 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 security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The UI is quite good."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"Sophos XG deployment is easy and rapid."
"We are able to trace any user and pinpoint any vulnerability or any malicious software. We are able to synchronize between the local and active directories so we can catch users easily through their login names and IDs."
"The interface is user-friendly and the product is easy to configure."
"Sophos XG is easy to use."
"All of the features are amazing, especially Sandstorm, which prevents bad traffic or downloaded files from reaching our customers' and partners' networks."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"The solution has good performance and is easy to use."
"The updates are helpful and add to the solution in a positive way."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"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."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"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 solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The tool lacks features."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"They made some changes to the firmware update sometime last year, which moved some of the policies from where they were before. Some of the policies, such as NAS policies, were separated, which made it a bit hard for people to trace the policies they had configured."
"In the Sophos XG, the SD-WAN has all the rules done separately, such as net policy routing. In the previous version, they were all in a single rule and everything was done that way. The way it is now is difficult for us because we are not used to this newer version. The firewall rules should be easier to configure and create. Everything should be done with a single click."
"The GUI and support could be better. I think there are other products that we are going to deploy instead of Sophos. We have already upgraded a month ago because the interfaces and support for Sophos are really weak. But other products like Juniper, Cisco, or FortiGate are better than Sophos. It's also complicated, and the end-user or client does not understand it."
"Over the last six months, we have noticed that the hardware is slow, especially the VPN connections."
"I would like to have more artificial intelligence in the web monitoring service that comes with it. It should alert us when particular events happen. It has already got some of that. I know that it is more of a service, and Sophos is already looking at it. It is called SIEM."
"Sophos XG could improve the policies, they are a bit confusing when creating them. There are many options that make it confusing and it could be simplified."
"They should improve the hardware. If they can do that, it will be a very good product."
"I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sophos XG report.
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