We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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."The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"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."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"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."
"Cisco ASA works very nicely from an administration perspective. The management of the device is very nice. The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) is the software that we use and it is very easy to configure using the GUI."
"Cisco offers a great educational series to train users on their devices."
"The technical support is excellent. I would rate it as 10 out of 10. When there has been an issue, we have had a good response from them."
"The Adversity Malware Protection (AMP) feature is the most valuable. It is also very easy to use. Every technical user can operate this solution without any difficulty. The dashboard of Cisco Firepower has every tool that a security operator needs. You can find every resource that you need to operate through this dashboard."
"Cisco Secure Firewall is reliable, which is why we opted for it during the pandemic for our remote users."
"It is one of the fastest solutions, if not the fastest, in the security technology space. This gives us peace of mind knowing that as soon as a new attack comes online that we will be protected in short order. From that perspective, no one really comes close now to Firepower, which is hugely valuable to us from an upcoming new attack prevention perspective."
"Strong in NAT and access-lists."
"If you have a solution that is creating a script and you need to deploy many implementations, you can create a script in the device and it will be the same for all. After that, you just have to do the fine tuning."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The support for the solution has been excellent. If we ever had an issue they would send an engineer to help us with our problem."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"We make use of the new data center, specifically the containerized data center which is built and reviewed by Huawei, including all the device's infrastructure."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"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."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"This solution could be more granular and user-friendly."
"We're getting support but there's a big delay until we get a response from their technical team. They're in the USA and we're in Africa, so that's the difficulty. When they're in the office, they respond."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"The GUI interface could be improved when compared to other solutions."
"The configuration in Firepower Management Center is very slow. Deployment takes two to three minutes. You spend a lot of time on modifications. Whereas, in FortiGate, you press a button, and it takes one second."
"The usability of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is an issue. The product is still under development, and the user interface is very difficult to deal with."
"With the new FTD, there is a little bit of a learning curve."
"The Sandbox and the Web Censoring in this solution need to be improved."
"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 IPS feature must be improved."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"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."
"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."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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