We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The user interface is very, very good."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"We make use of the new data center, specifically the containerized data center which is built and reviewed by Huawei, including all the device's infrastructure."
"The feature that I have found the most useful is that it meets all our requirements technically."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"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."
"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 web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos UTM. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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