We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and Huawei NGFW based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The GUI is good."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"It has been stable so far."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are 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."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The UI is quite good."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"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."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". 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". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series.
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