We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The pricing is excellent."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"The initial setup is easy. It's the easiest firewall installation process on the market. I work with three or four other products and this one is the easiest."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"It's very easy to use."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"Firewall and overall management are valuable features."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Backup can be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"It would be better if AWS instances were available. If I want to upgrade from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available rather than having a big instance and paying a lot of money for that. The issue is that we had deployed in AWS Cloud, and we were using a very small instance. Recently we wanted to move in-house and deploy it on the big instance because it was struggling with the RAM. If we use T2.small, we cannot upgrade it to the T2.medium. It has predefined instances in the marketplace with a lot of cost differences. If I can increase the RAM, I have to choose the T3.large instance. If I'm paying $270 for the small instance, I have to pay more than double the cost for T3.large. It is about $850, and this is not good. So, it would be better if it was cheaper. I think both AWS and Fortinet should think about that. They should provide it on lower instances as well. If I want to upgrade it from T2.small to T2.medium, it should be available, but it's a problem."
"The solution's firmware updates have significant bugs and issues."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"There is some room for improvement in the support."
"There is no flexibility."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The tool lacks features."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"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 does not have sandboxing features."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Cisco IOS Security, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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