We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Sangfor NGAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"Sangfor NGAF works accordingly with our customers. The solution has good performance, easy to use, and integrates well with the endpoints."
"The level of support provided to local companies is good. They transform their application control and other settings according to that country."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"Sangfor has the best capabilities for securing connections, securing web browsers, securing servers, and general threat protection."
"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."
"Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"The tool is expensive."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"The interface and user experience are horrible."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 30 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS and Check Point NGFW.
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