Huawei HiSecEngine USG Series Firewall Recognized as a "Strong Performer" in the Enterprise Firewall Market by Well-known Analyst Firm

[Shenzhen, China, September 1, 2020] Huawei HiSecEngine USG series firewall has been recognized as a Strong Performer in the market evaluation report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020 released by Forrester Research.

The Forrester Wave™ enterprise firewall report identified the 11 most significant vendors in the global enterprise firewall market and evaluated them on 34 criteria. Huawei is the only Chinese vendor on the list and has the highest score possible in four current offering criteria: automated malware analysis, IDS/IPS, TLS decryption, incident response and SOC automation. The report notes that Huawei refers to its USG series as the world's first AI firewall, and it is one of only a handful of vendors in the Forrester analysis to apply ML to encrypted traffic analysis.

Forrester's report commented on Huawei: Huawei leads the China market. Reference customers were unanimous in their praise for both the value provided and the total cost of ownership of the USG firewall series, and all would recommend it to a colleague. Chinese buyers looking for an enterprise firewall should evaluate Huawei.

"Firewalls build the first line of enterprise security defense. Facing increasingly severe threats, firewalls are evolving into a more powerful network security platform," said Denzel Song, President of Huawei Security Product Domain. "Huawei continuously invests in security product R&D, not only builds security and trustworthiness capabilities of products, but also enhances security features such as malware analysis, intrusion detection, and automatic security O&M. Huawei was rated as a Strong performer in this evaluation by Forrester, further confirming for us that Huawei has the capability to meet customers' differentiated requirements in the cyber security field. By building a solid and reliable security platform, Huawei builds a great steel wall for enterprises. "

Huawei has taken cyber security and privacy protection as the top priority of the company and has been investing in the security field for 20 years to build an end-to-end security assurance system. In the future, Huawei is committed to building intelligent defense, protecting a fully connected digital world, and continuously providing industry-leading security products and solutions for global customers.