We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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."Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"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 solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"The most useful feature is the performance of the firewalls and networking operations."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"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."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"The tool helps us to integrate with other brands."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"The solution is scalable."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Backup can be improved."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"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."
"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 solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The solution isn't cheap. It's market price."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"It would be better if they improved their policy, package visibility, and flexibility while we're creating rules for inspection. It could also be cheaper or more things could be included in the basic package. In the next release, I would like better coverage in the Asia Pacific region and better quality of service."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Huawei NGFW vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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