We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sophos XGS 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 initial installation is very straightforward."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"All the features are valuable, in my opinion, but for us the most important features are the network security, application control, and web server protection. Sophos Sandstorm is another good feature off the top of my head."
"Setup was straightforward. One person is enough for deployment."
"XGS' most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"There are good KCL rules and policies as well as NATing rules."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is its ease of use."
"The threat management system and VPN are most valuable."
"The solution is scalable."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"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."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"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 IPS feature must be improved."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"Sophos XGS could improve the price."
"Compared to Fortinet, the cost is high."
"The configurations can be a bit complex."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"There are a lot of false-positive cases."
"They need intelligent reporting, not just your simple, standard reports."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. 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 XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sophos XGS report.
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