We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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."UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The user interface is easy to navigate."
"It is scalable and stable."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is pretty easy to deploy."
"I like its integration with the AnyConnect client. I also like how modular it is. For example, I can easily integrate the Umbrella add-on into it. We are planning on adding Umbrella. We haven't added it yet, but we have researched."
"I found that setting up rules for HTTPS and SSH access to the management interface are straightforward, including setting the cypher type."
"It's very stable and mature."
"It just works for us."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The mapping features and traffic logging are good."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"In terms of functionality, there isn't much to improve. There could be more bandwidth and better interface speed."
"I would like to see an IE version of the solution where it is ruggedized."
"Cisco Secure Firewall's integration with cloud providers has room for improvement. We could do more in terms of integration, for example, if we had a tag on an instance."
"The product crashes. We have a cluster of firewalls and we regularly get failovers."
"The artificial intelligence and machine learning (behavioral based threat detection), which I can this will be coming out in another year, these are what we need now."
"It is my understanding that they are in the process of discontinuing this device."
"I have used Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point previously and I prefer the process of everything working together."
"Lacks a good graphical user interface."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"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 solution does not have sandboxing features."
"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 solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". 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". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Sophos XG. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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