We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Sophos XG 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The solution is more cost-effective than FortiGate, Cisco and Palo Alto, which have very expensive licenses."
"The security of Sophos XG is very good."
"The most valuable feature is web filtering."
"I like the fact that it can self remove malware and do updates on the cloud via Sophos Central."
"I recommend the solution due to its ease of use and pricing."
"The product is very easy to explore. It has a very good layout."
"Sophos XG Firewall is very usable, very easy to install, and very user friendly."
"The product has a console that is based in the cloud for all their products. In this console, they have email security, firewall security, endpoint security, et cetera. All of the products on offer in the console are very useful for us."
"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."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"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."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
"The tool does not have web functionality. It needs to also have high end firewalls."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"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."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"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."
"While it is possible to configure between two of the solution's devices in the same model, the high available usually fails."
"Some businesses require Dynamic IP. This feature would be useful if it worked."
"On reports, they sometimes give a summary, but it lists different users as unknown. There are times that I really want to know which user or which IP is causing a problem."
"I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required."
"I would like to have a more efficient login process."
"The solution should have the ability to be up to date with the most recent threats."
"Their updates can be faster and more regular."
"The training manual provided to users lacks proper guidance on configuration procedures."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Fortinet FortiOS, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Sophos XG report.
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