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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"FortiOS allows us to set up alarms for blocked websites and SSL verifications. When someone tries to access a blocked site, the solution sends a notification to the IT manager's mailbox."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the SD-WAN, SSL inspection, and IDS/IPS functions."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"The customer service and support team are excellent."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The user interface is very, very 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."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"A switch should be introduced."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"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."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"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 WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"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."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 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 Vectra AI, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sangfor NGAF. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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