We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"One of the best things about Huawei NGFW is its ability to integrate Azure solutions. Every year, we can add new features to the firewall. The key advantage is the integration across the entire network, so it doesn't work in isolation. For example, we can manage everything with features like the secret manager or analytic IDs. The solution is straightforward. It can also detect intrusions."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The UI is quite good."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"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."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"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."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"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."
"The tool lacks features."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"We need to speed up the support."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
Huawei NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 20 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sophos UTM report.
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