Sangfor NGAF Reviews

Sangfor NGAF is a complete firewall solution.

The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration.

Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better.

I have been using Sangfor NGAF for approximately three years.

Sangfor NGAF is stable.

The scalability of Sangfor NGAF is good.

We are using the Sangfor NGAF as our firewall, we have approximately 6,000 to 8,000 end users who are passing through. We have approximately 10 to 15 people using the Sangfor SSL VPN feature remotely from home.

The support from Sangfor NGAF here in Pakistan is great. Whenever I have an issue the support helps me out efficiently.

I rate the support from Sangfor NGAF a five out of five.

Positive

The initial setup of Sangfor NGAF is straightforward. Sophos and Fortinet have more difficult initial setups.

I rate the initial setup of Sangfor NGAF a five out of five.

The license of Sangfor NGAF can be purchased at different interval lengths, such as annually or three years. They offer a range of packages to choose from, such as combo or hybrid packages. We are using the complete solution package which includes IM, NGF and SSL VPN, and WAF. 

We have purchased the support for three years.

My advice to others is they should try the solution. I have experienced other solutions, such as Fortinet and I feel much better using this solution overall.

I rate Sangfor NGAF a nine out of ten.

We have a huge market in Pakistan consisting of Sangfor clients. Sangfor itself is based in Pakistan. The tool's OEM team is also in Pakistan, and they are managing the tool quite well.

The solution's most valuable features are that it is scalable, super secure, and has a few features that secure client networks.

Sangfor’s team directly deals with clients. I feel Sangfor should follow the hierarchy and close deals via resellers instead of closing it all with their own team.

I have experience working with Sangfor NGAF.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

The solution's technical support is super great. The tool's team is in Pakistan, and they have it all set up and available for users. The tool's after-sales support team is available.

The product's initial setup phase is easy to handle. The tool has its own dashboards, which we can access to pitch clients and demonstrate the whole solution in a few steps, making it quite easy and user-friendly for users.

In my opinion, the price of the tool is good in the Pakistani market. We can easily get discounts if needed. The tool's prices are not firm or strict.

The solution improves network performance as it is a security product.

HCI solutions are used in the Pakistani market, and it is a virtualization solution. We are presenting two solutions for the Pakistani market. One is a security tool like a firewall, and the second is HCI, a storage solution for virtualization. My company sells Sangfor tools to more than 100 clients.

The tool's performance is good.

The tool's application control feature is a built-in option.

The tool's intrusion prevention system is a feature that can be described as a built-in functionality.

I recommend the tool to others because it is a good, economical, scalable, user-friendly, and super secure product.

The tool's updates are fine.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

The system comprises three primary functionalities: defense solutions, detection solutions, and the ability to identify, block, and analyze network traffic. It enables us to not only detect but also prevent various types of incoming threats, allowing us to take appropriate corrective actions and exercise control over the network.

We have observed numerous threats targeting our network from both internal and external sources. While we have reports detailing these incidents, we currently lack a clear method for prioritizing internal threats.

The information provided alerts us to the presence of threats from specific sources, which is highly beneficial.

It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks.

I have been using it for three years.

We face occasional stability issues. I would rate it seven out of ten.

It doesn't offer significant scalability features.

In the event of a performance issue, such as users reporting slow access to specific websites, we conduct an internal investigation to identify the root cause. If it's determined to be a problem with the equipment, we escalate the issue to the vendor for resolution.

Neutral

When we installed the equipment, we depended on an external consulting party to guide us through the setup and functionality for approximately two weeks. The project team, consisting of both project members and experts in the field, were actively engaged during this period.

The pricing is reasonable. At the time of our decision to acquire the equipment, we were working with a constrained budget and it turned out to be the most suitable choice to meet our specific requirements

We considered FortiGate as an option but ultimately decided on Sangfor NGAF due to its more favorable pricing.

I hope that its distributor possesses a high level of product knowledge, and the same applies to Sangfor itself as the principal company. This would enable customers to have a more seamless and enriching experience with the product, eliminating any barriers or disconnect between our team, the customers, and the software. Overall, I would rate it seven out of ten.

This solution is our firewall. I'm a network administrator.

Sangfor serves most of the basic purposes of a firewall. It's particularly good in the DPI where we can inspect the inbound and outbound traffic on a very granular level. It gives a very good predictive measure as well as the current measure of things going on in our network. When it comes to the VPNs, it has a very good throughput when remote users connect, particularly when it comes to site-to-site VPNs, where it provides a good analysis module. You can analyze inbound traffic and different policies on this. It gives us value for money overall.

I think the GUI needs to be improved, there are a lot of areas where the panes do not make sense. They have put the NAT in the policy section but at the same time the DPI is in the network pane. The placement of different options in the menu system of this firewall is not that logical and often doesn't make a lot of sense. The operational procedures are a little tricky and require some technical skills. A level one person will have problems. The compatibility needs to be improved. 

I've been using this solution for three years. 

We have been experiencing power failures but the solution has been very stable, both from the hardware and the software perspective. We have built a lot of VPN solutions for the firewalls including Cisco, Firewall 2, and pfSense, and it has been very good with that. 

We don't require a very highly scalable coefficient but I believe it's scalable. 

The technical support is very good. They have a local vendor they have hired for the technical support and if anything cannot be resolved remotely, they come to us. They are very agile and very technically supportive.

Positive

The initial setup was a little complex because we were previously dealing with command line scenarios and we were not very comfortable with the GUI which is a little complex. 

Our licensing costs are around $15,000 per year which is nominal compared to other solutions. 

Whether or not this solution is good for you depends on your network. If you have sufficient technical support, then you can go for an open-source solution. Without that and if you have the funds, then this is a good solution. If not, then most of what firewalls do these days can be handled by an open-source solution.

This is a new solution in our country where the price tag really matters. They have targeted the public sector and I'm seeing more and more people moving towards Sangfor because it's cheaper than other products, and the support is quite good. 

I rate the solution seven out of 10. 

We have this solution deployed across multiple industries including education, pharmaceutical and different textile industries. This is a good product for network security and is popular right now. Sangfor is cheaper than well-known products like Fortinet and Palo Alto Firewall NGFS.

The level of support provided to local companies is good. They transform their application control and other settings according to that country. 

Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it. 

We have deployed many firewalls and have faced two or three faulty devices that we have to replace over a year because their power supply was faulty. Some customers use the device for over five years and they have worked fine but got slower with the time.

This is a scalable solution. 

I can vouch for the local support team. They are more than competitive in the market. They are always available for small and big customers. They are onsite whenever we need it and assist with any problem or deployment scenario and are willing to discuss it at any time. I would rate them a three out of five. 

I have previously used Fortinet. Fortinet is quite a mature product and offers so many features. Sangfor lack a bit in that area. Sangfor include a local database for URLs and other applications. When using Fortinet, you cannot block a local website by default. 

The simple deployment of a network on NGF is quite simple and their guides are quite simple as well. The do lack visual guides that are easier for some customers to follow. It's easy to configure a normal deployment scenario for networking and ET. When it comes to high level security and highly advanced features, you need to have some experience in that area to actually apply that on this firewall.

If you're experienced, it would take two or three hour maximum, depending on how many customers are using the policy and how much detailed configuration is needed. I would rate our experience with the setup an eight out of ten. 

We have faced some of the issues after deployment with URL filtering which we have logged a ticket for. Our customers are unable to access certain websites. We have diagnosed the problem but we are unable to identify the URL signature or what is blocking the IAM and preventing access to that site. 

For over 2000 users, the cost is around 5000 to 6000 USD. If you want a web application firewall, you have to purchase an additional license for it. By default, they provide you with 10 SSL and a VPN. If you want more than 10, you have to pay more. From a pricing perspective, I would rate them a four out of five.

They have a huge product line for large companies and we have deployed a firewall for over 5000 to 10000 users. It is suitable for all type of environments. I would advise others to spend one to two months after deployment on Sangfor to configure the many settings for security services. You have to work on it, keep looking at the logs and make changes as you go. You need this time to analyze, make future risk assessments and reconfigure the work from time to time. Only once this is done, can you consider deployment complete. 

It offers good value for money and is much cheaper compared to other firewalls. I would suggest Sangfor to those who are cost conscious. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Sangfor is an on-prem firewall I use for my local infrastructure. It is used as an aggregated interface. Behind Sangfor, I have built a data center that is deployed on high availability using a model that is 5100 CV with 10 gig ports.

Sangfor is a good solution that provides a WAF and firewall solution. Most other vendors, like Sophos and Fortinet and Cisco, only provide one solution. That's a valuable feature of Sangfor.

Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput. 

I have used this solution for the last six months.

This is a scalable solution. We have approximately 1,000 users.

The technical support team are available 24/7 and if we need any assistance for Sangfor, FortiGate or Sophos, we can call their support number and they provide assistance from their L2 or L3 engineers. 

Positive

It's very easy to set up because Sangfor provided us with export and HCI capabilities. Deployment took almost one week.

The process starts with low level design for internal teams to make a design on network requirements. This contains all current and future requirements.

For four to five physical appliances for a licensed firewall, it costs approximately $4,000.

We have six people managing IT operations. We have not had any issues in the first six months of using this solution. 

If you want to deploy a firewall in your infrastructure, Fortinet, Sangfor and Sophos are the best solutions to protect traffic.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We're using it more for VPN tunneling and security. We're integrating it with the SoundCloud platform to use it in our data center.

We're happily using the IP vSEC VPN. We will use some credentials to connect it to two different sites.

Sangfor's tech features and technologies are more powerful than those of the other solution providers in terms of security. They also have big solutions in terms of cybersecurity.

It has an issue with the Sangfor Cloud Platform rather than the firewall. When we run a virtual machine, the window tabs display Chinese characters. This could be a hindrance when presenting it to clients, especially since many of our clients prefer US-based products. We’re pitching Sangfor as part of our solutions, but the presence of Chinese characters might be a concern.

I have been using Sangfor NGAF as a partner for two to three years.

We've encountered various glitches or bugs with the firewall, particularly when trying to configure redundancy. We're facing challenges with setting up two ISPs on a single, stacked firewall.

We haven't encountered any issues scaling with Sangfor. It follows a more traditional approach to scaling, though we don’t yet fully understand all the scaling capabilities of Sangfor products. However, it does have the basic features needed for scaling.

We have some contacts here locally. We do contact them for support.

Sang four independently is easy to configure. It's very straightforward. However, we're having challenges with the interoperability matrix and other integration for other firewall brands. 

The standard configuration, with basic policies, can take a couple of hours to set up.

One guy in our company can do the configuration.

We achieved a lot of ROI since the competitive pricing is much better than the other brands.

Price is very competitive with other brands.

We encounter different glitches or bugs in the firewall. More likely, we're having a problem with two ISPs being cited in our firewall to have redundancy. We don't know the primary or best practice of configuring two ISPs in a single firewall.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Sangfor NGAF offers built-in Web Application Firewall capabilities, making it a valuable choice for securing WAF servers. We have implemented this feature in numerous deployments, particularly in the fields of financial management and enterprise environments.

We have established an SD-WAN infrastructure with Sangfor NGAF, which has proven to be highly beneficial. The built-in features function as intended, providing exceptional value.

It is a relatively new product in the market, so we are dealing with challenges related to security and malware detection. It will need time to assess its strengths and weaknesses thoroughly. We discovered that the SD-WAN capability is available within this product. It also includes built-in Value-Added Security Technology, which can be cost-effective, but improvements are needed, particularly in enhancing malware detection. Another area for improvement is integrating with other third-party providers' solutions for a more seamless security ecosystem.

We have been working with it for two and a half years.

In terms of stability, there have been occasional issues, such as glitches and disruptions, leading to periods of downtime. Improvement in this area is necessary. I would rate it five out of ten.

Scalability is a key aspect, and we haven't thoroughly tested its compatibility with various other products yet. I would rate it five out of ten.

Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging. There's room for improvement in this aspect.

The initial setup is remarkably straightforward and user-friendly.

The price falls in the mid-range, neither exceptionally low nor high. I would rate it seven out of ten.

Deploying Sangfor NGAF proves highly advantageous for small and medium-sized businesses. Overall, I would rate it seven out of ten.