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."It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"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."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The UI is quite good."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration."
"So far, the performance and reliability of the product have supported our company's critical network traffic."
"Sangfor is a good solution that provides a WAF and firewall solution. Most other vendors, like Sophos and Fortinet and Cisco, only provide one solution. That's a valuable feature of Sangfor."
"In four steps one can configure the entire firewall."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"Sangfor NGAF works accordingly with our customers. The solution has good performance, easy to use, and integrates well with the endpoints."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"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."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"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."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The solution should be able to work in a hybrid setup."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"The interface and user experience are horrible."
"Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging."
"Sangfor has recently increased their prices."
"An area of improvement for Sangfor NGAF could be in the field of reporting and logging."
"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."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 7.8. 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, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS and Sophos UTM. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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