We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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.
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"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 valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The different hardware models focus on a wide spectrum of the market, so any company can choose a model that makes sense for them from the range."
"Within the organization, the inspection of packages has given us great help in detecting traffic that may be a threat to the institution."
"One of the valuable characteristics of Check Point NGFW is that it presents very centralized management."
"Check Point's most useful feature is threat prevention and extraction. It was tough to manage seven firewalls and a perimeter solution for IPS, anti-malware, anti-bot, and sandboxing."
"The solution is easy to use. I like the monitoring the most."
"One of the solution's best features include a packet-filtering firewall that examines packets in isolation."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"On the firewall side, the security efficacy is good."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"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."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"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."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"The reports are very basic."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"There is nothing more that I need in terms of improvement."
"While the logs are very good and easy to understand, when you want to download these customized logs, they don't have as many features compared to competitive firewalls."
"I still don't have access to the reporting service."
"The price is middling. It's much more expensive than Fortinet, although not so expensive when compared with Palo Alto."
"This product has room for improvement in technical support for Africa."
"Including some sort of menu or grouping for VOIP would help the small business area that has limited support."
"At the moment it is not easy to configure some VPN S2S in Check Point."
"They should integrate all blades to use a single policy rather than multiple."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"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."
"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 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 tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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 IPS feature must be improved."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 278 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 20 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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