Huawei HiSecEngine USG6800G vs Stormshield Management Center

Huawei HiSecEngine USG6800G is an appliance-based network security series for enterprise branches, campuses, and data centers. Huawei describes it as an AI firewall built on a new software and hardware architecture. Integrated protection covers firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus, bandwidth management, anti-DDoS, and URL filtering. It identifies more than 6,000 applications and can control access to application functions. Huawei says local-gateway AI algorithms analyze malicious behavior and detect 95% of unknown threats. VPN options include IPsec, SSL, and GRE. The series addresses more than 10 common DDoS attacks and more than 20 single-packet attacks, with baseline learning and IP reputation filtering. Centralized management provides policy orchestration and alarm correlation. Models are USG6855G, USG6875G, and USG6885G in a 2U form factor.

Stormshield Management Center (SMC) centralizes security administration for multi-site networks using SNS firewalls. It exchanges configuration and supervision data with those firewalls in real time, with confidentiality and integrity protection, and provides a graphical interface for managing security and filtering policies across them. Administrators can supervise firewalls and VPN tunnels and centrally deploy SNS updates. SMC also covers SD-WAN management and monitoring, including route-based topology, filtering rules, and link-quality monitoring. It manages VPN topologies and can create Virtual Tunnel Interfaces automatically; it also supports post-quantum encryption deployment using KEM and PPK. A REST API, scheduled or deferred scripts, authentication through a local directory or external server, and automatic backup and centralization of configurations round out its management capabilities. SMC can connect to Stormshield Log Supervisor and is available on the OUTSCALE Marketplace. It is paid, with pricing available from a reseller partner, and Stormshield directs prospective users to sales for a trial version. Listed platforms are API, Linux, self-hosted, and web.