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."The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"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."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"All the features are valuable, but my main one is the straightforward and well-designed GUI. I'm over 50 and have been in this business since the internet started. I'm not a GUI guy; I prefer using the command line. The product's GUI is excellent, and so is the threat intelligence. It's also straightforward to configure and flexible. The solution even has good networking, such as VLAN and subinterfaces, which is great because, in my experience, if the firewall is good, then the router usually isn't and vice-versa, but Palo Alto has both."
"The solution is user-friendly. It's secure and easy to understand your network visibility, control the network, and prevent attacks."
"From my experience, comparing it to other products, the granularity you can have in the application is very good. The application detection is excellent. It's certainly one of the best."
"The structure is much faster and more sophisticated than Cisco."
"With App-ID, we can identify exact traffic. Even if someone tries to fool the firewall with a different port number, or with the correct port number, Palo Alto is able to identify what kind of traffic it is."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls enabled us to have better visibility overall."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls have a very nice interface for logging and monitoring. I find it easy to navigate and use, and the interface is organized as well. I can find answers within a couple of hours and have seen time savings."
"The most valuable features are web filtering and application filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"The documentation needs to be improved. When they retire old models, they also retire the documentation. However, if you are still using an older model, you still need access to that documentation. And yet, they go ahead and removed it. It's gone. You are therefore stuck with a device with no documentation and technical support that isn't very helpful as they also remove support assistance as well."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"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."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"I would like to see better integration with IoT technologies."
"I would like them to improve their GUI interface, making it more user-friendly."
"They can improve the handling and management of User-ID. They should also improve its price. Their technical support can also be improved."
"The analysis of the ITS ID by Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls could be improved."
"The cloud could be improved. I would like to have more visibility of the vulnerabilities of the network as well."
"Palo Alto is like Microsoft. It has varied features, but it's too technical. A lot of the features could be simplified. The procedure, process, features, and usability could be more simple."
"I would like them to bring in some features that would encourage traffic shaping or bandwidth routing, like other UTM firewalls, because the solution should be capable of limiting the bandwidth for rules."
"A major concern is making the licensing more accessible to enable small municipalities to afford and manage their own systems independently."
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Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 163 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, Sophos XG and Fortinet FortiOS, 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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