We performed a comparison between Huawei NGFW and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet, Cisco, Netgate and others in Firewalls."I like the ASDM for the firewall because it is visual. With the command line, it is harder to visualize what is going on. A picture is worth a thousand words."
"One of the nice things about Firepower is that you can set it to discover the environment. If that is happening, then Firepower is learning about every device, software operating system, and application running inside or across your environment. Then, you can leverage the discovery intelligence to get Firepower to select the most appropriate intrusion prevention rules to use for your environment rather than picking one of the base policies that might have 50,000 IPS rules in it, which can put a lot of overhead on your firewall. If you choose the recommendations, as long as you update them regularly, you might be able to get your rule set down to only 1,000 or 1,500, which is a significant reduction in a base rule set. This means that the firewall will give you better performance because there are less rules being checked unnecessarily. That is really useful."
"We found the initial setup to be easy."
"The most valuable feature would be the IP blocking. It gets rid of things that you don't need in your environment."
"With the pandemic, people began working from home. That was a pretty big move, having all our users working from a home. More capacity needed to be added to our remote VPN. ASA did this very well."
"All the rules are secure and we haven't had a significant malware attack in the five years that we've been using ASA Firewall. It has been a tremendous improvement for our network. However, I can't quantify the benefits in monetary terms."
"I have experience with URL filtering, and it is very good for URL filtering. You can filter URLs based on the categories, and it does a good job. It can also do deep packet inspection."
"The clusters in data centers are great."
"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 support for the solution has been excellent. If we ever had an issue they would send an engineer to help us with our problem."
"Huawei support is excellent. I rate it 10 out of 10."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"We have found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The solution can scale well."
"They need a VTI. I know it's going to be available in the next software version, which is the 6.7 version. However, the problem with that is that the 6.7 is going to deprecate all the older IKEv1 deployment tunnels. Therefore, the problem is that we have a lot of customers which are using older encryptions. If I do that, update it, it's not going to work for me."
"There are some limitations with SSL. Regarding the security assessment for the ISO 27000 standard, there are certain features that Cisco needs to scale up. Not all products support it, so you need to be slightly careful, especially on the site track."
"The maturity needs to be better."
"The initial setup could be simplified, as it can be complex for new users."
"The solution is overcomplicated in some senses. Simplifying it would be an improvement."
"The graphical interface could be improved. From what I have seen, Fortinet, for example, has a nicer GUI."
"Cisco makes horrible UIs, so the interface is something that should be improved."
"The content filtering on an application level is not as good as other solutions such as Palo Alto."
"The solution could be more secure and have better integration."
"The solution is scalable but it is difficult because you need to purchase new systems, it is not just one click."
"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 user interface could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
Huawei NGFW is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 5 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 1 review. Huawei NGFW is rated 7.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 3.0. The top reviewer of Huawei NGFW writes "It's reliable and simple to use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Low cost but unresponsive technical support and very unstable performance". Huawei NGFW is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Check Point NGFW and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Sophos UTM.
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