We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sophos UTM 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."Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The UI is quite good."
"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."
"We make use of the new data center, specifically the containerized data center which is built and reviewed by Huawei, including all the device's infrastructure."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"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."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"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."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Backup can be improved."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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 WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sophos UTM report.
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