We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."It has improved our security capabilities."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"I think that the most valuable feature is the prevention of known and zero-day threats because they are constantly trying to access your company and compromise its data."
"The features that are important include: IPS, sandbox, SandBlast, Anti-Bot, and URL filtering."
"The solution is scalable."
"The edge security posture has dramatically improved as we can now detect and prevent threats from the public internet."
"I like the dashboard, redundancy, log analysis, threat prevention and ISP, and VPN."
"I use it as well as a VM. We use it a lot because we have all fiber optic connections, so we could use almost all of that. The federation is beautiful because I can transfer all traffic to my main site where I can use just one link to the internet, and I can use it as a proxy as well. It is good to keep control and security."
"The management platform and the dashboard, the graphical user interface, is one of the best, if not the best, in the business. It's the most intuitive and it's really user-friendly in day-to-day operations."
"Being able to search in clear text is simple for the customer and for troubleshooting an environment."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The anti-spam needs improvement."
"One of the biggest disappointments is the GUI."
"We find the GUI to be wrong and the CLI doesn't always show all of the connections."
"All the advanced features of automation, especially the first installation of tunnels, need improvement."
"Check Point NGFW Firewall requires frequent updates to build more user-friendly dashboards."
"One area that they should prioritize is enhancing security gateways for protection against cyberattacks."
"The NAT services part needs improvement. It's not sophisticated. It needs functions like range assignment for NATing. The way you assign a list of IPs for NATing is too simple. It just allows you to use pools."
"Currently, upgrades are quite cumbersome."
"One issue we've encountered with Huawei NGFW is that after using a firewall for two or three years, we need to replace it. The new firewalls often have more features and better memory or throughput. However, sometimes, they lack some features that the old ones had."
"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 is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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