We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and SonicWall NSa 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 security on offer is very good."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"It can expand easily."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"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 UI is quite good."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The solution can scale."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"User-friendly with good security and application control."
"I like this solution because we are focused on VPN and have many brands that need to link a VPN and have security, like ransomware, spyware, and basic protection."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"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 requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"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."
"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 solution does not have sandboxing features."
"It would help us a lot of SonicWall sent us more information about the latest updates and things that are changing."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"Needs a more detailed reporting feature."
"The only thing that we would want would be single-pane management, which it has, but the GMS is not very good. It's purely the management of multiple devices for multiple customers, that's the only thing that it's lacking."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"I feel that the SSL VPN client software needs a lot of improvement."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while SonicWall NSa 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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