We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The UI is quite good."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the robust firewall, which we can also use as a UTM device."
"It's a next-generation firewall and it's pretty stable. You don't have to worry about if you restart it for some maintenance. It will just come back."
"The solution is user-friendly. It's secure and easy to understand your network visibility, control the network, and prevent attacks."
"You just need a web browser to manage it, unlike Cisco, which requires another management system."
"The App-ID feature is the coolest feature because you don't need to open a new port. Apps are directly linked to the port. It provides one of the best ways to lock down the additional port switch."
"We like the fact that this product can provide multiple layers of protection depending on our clients requirements, and can be configured to whatever level of protection and the specific protocols that they want."
"There are many valuable features, such as wireless cloud features."
"The user ID, Wildfire, UI, and management configuration are all great features."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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 solution could be cheaper."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"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 is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"I would like more reporting and metrics in the solution."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls do not provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities."
"The user interface is a bit clumsy and not very user-friendly."
"The analysis of the ITS ID by Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls could be improved."
"The machine learning in Palo Alto NG Firewalls for securing networks against threats that are able to evolve and morph rapidly is good, in general. But there have been some cases where we get false positives and Palo Alto has denied traffic when there have been new updates and signature releases. Valid traffic gets blocked. We have had some bad experiences with this. If there were an ability, before it denies traffic, to get some kind of notification that some traffic is going to be blocked, that would be good."
"There is a web-based GUI to do management, but you need to know how the machine or firewall operates. There are hundreds of different menus and options. I have used other firewalls before. Just implementing or designing a policy with Palo Alto, if you want a certain port to be open to different IP addresses, then that could take 20 to 25 clicks. That is just testing it out. It is quite complex to do. Whereas, with other places, you tell it, "Okay, I want this specific port open and this IP address to have access to it." That was it. However, not with Palo Alto, which is definitely more complex."
"The only downside of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, in my opinion, is the relatively higher price compared to Cisco FortiGate. This is especially noticeable when deploying basic configurations and considering the cost of licenses."
"In the future, I would like to see more OTP features."
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Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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