We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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 threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"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 UI is quite good."
"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."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The setup is quite easy."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"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 tool lacks features."
"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 WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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