We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sangfor NGAF 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 flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"It is a safe product."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The user interface is very, very 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."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Sangfor NGAF works accordingly with our customers. The solution has good performance, easy to use, and integrates well with the endpoints."
"It offers application control features."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"You might try Sangfor if you are on a tight budget. The price is affordable, and Sangfor offers a lot of features. We don't have any complaints about Sangfor."
"So far, the performance and reliability of the product have supported our company's critical network traffic."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"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."
"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 requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"An area for improvement would be the number of ports defined on the box. In the next release, I would like them to develop their provisioning stage of enrolling end devices."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0. 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 Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Sophos UTM. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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