We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Huawei NGFW 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."It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The interface is very good."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The SSL spectrum proved to be the most valuable for our incoming connections."
"The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"Check Point is one of the few solutions that pay attention to cloud security. Many others mostly focus on providing on-premises solutions."
"Auto-scaling and zero touch are valuable features."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"CloudGuard Network Security provides unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-prem. It's very important because when I have unified security, I have better control of the situation. If there's an attack or something like that, we can react faster. It's easier for everyone in the organization to work with the Infinity platform."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The support system could be improved."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The reports are very basic."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"While Check Point does offer some VWAN offerings, they appear to be more static and less tailored to cloud-native environments compared to Palo Alto's dynamic and flexible approach."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"I want the upgrades of their CloudGuard solution to major versions to be easier. We have had a few small hiccups. They have different types of cloud clusters called Geo Clusters, and those just cannot be upgraded past a certain point, which is a hurdle that we are currently experiencing."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"I hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"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 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 IPS feature must be improved."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"I would like to see an antivirus solution included with the product."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, 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". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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