We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"The UI is quite good."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"I am impressed with the product's antivirus features, strong encryption, policy implementation and easier installation."
"The support for the solution has been excellent. If we ever had an issue they would send an engineer to help us with our problem."
"I had no difficulty using the Huawei NGFW."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"It is pretty important to have embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention, because all these different attacks and threats are constantly evolving. So, you want to have something beyond just hard pass rules. You want it to learn as it is going along. Its machine learning seems pretty good. It seems like it is catching quite a few things."
"Identifying applications is very easy with this solution."
"The first time I came across these firewalls, what surprised me the most was their web user interface. It is complete and gives you a lot of information. You can do 80% of the things related to your network and firewall through the web UI. In some of the other devices, the UI is not as complete. App-ID is also very valuable in customer networks. When you're seeing a lot of traffic in your network, you can see in your web UI which users have the applications that are consuming the most bandwidth. You have a broad context, which is very good."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities."
"Palo Alto NGFW provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities, which is very useful. This prevents us from having to go to a lot of different systems, and in some cases, many different systems in many different regions, because we are a global company with 60 remote offices around the world in 30 different countries. Its centralized platform is really what we look for in all services, whether it be security or otherwise."
"Their Prisma log collection is pretty great. Our product collects the logs, and it definitely makes the configuration of log collection easier."
"One of the most valuable features of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is application symmetries."
"The sandboxing is valuable and they are frequently updating their signature database. We get new updates every five minutes. That makes it easy to detect new and unknown attacks."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"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."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
"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 could be cheaper."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The solution requires a more interactive dashboard. That would make it easier than playing with configurations the way we have to now."
"It would be better to have more tools to control Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. We don't have too many tools to access Palo Alto. For example, the IT team doesn't have access to it. We can see it physically and see if it's running or not. We need to contact a special team to receive that information. I would also like to see more reporting in the next release."
"The cost of the device is very high."
"Based on the features that I have seen so far, I do not see any room for improvement, but they can improve their CLI documentation. I haven't really seen much when it comes to CLI documentation."
"The reports it provides are not helpful."
"The support could be improved."
"The price is high and has room for improvement."
"Support should be improved, wait times can be long."
"In the future, I would like to see more OTP features."
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Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 161 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Sophos XG, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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