We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."It is very flexible to use."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. The technical support team are very good and very quick."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The most valuable features are the threat prevention and policy-based routing features."
"It is pretty important to have embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention, because all these different attacks and threats are constantly evolving. So, you want to have something beyond just hard pass rules. You want it to learn as it is going along. Its machine learning seems pretty good. It seems like it is catching quite a few things."
"The payload is a very valuable feature."
"The feature that I like the most is its IPS model, the WildFire model. I really like how the whole threat protection model functions, including the vulnerability and anti-spyware aspects. That is really awesome."
"Most of the features in Palo Alto are very valuable."
"This solution not only provides better security than flat VLAN segments but allows easy movement through the lifecycle of the server."
"GlobalProtect and App-ID features are very good."
"I love the Policy Optimizer feature. I am also completely happy with its stability."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Application management can be improved."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"I would like them to improve their GUI interface, making it more user-friendly."
"The cloud could be improved. I would like to have more visibility of the vulnerabilities of the network as well."
"In the future, I would like to see more OTP features."
"The solution has normal authentication, but does not have two-factor or multi-factor authentication. There is room for development there."
"We have a lot of the older firewall models, i.e., the PA-220. It seems that with newer operating systems the PA-220 is becoming slower than when I first bought it. It is not really an issue for users who are passing traffic through the firewall, but more from the management access of it."
"This solution cannot be implemented on-premises; it's only a cloud solution. The price is high as well."
"The scalability compared to other products is not good. You need to change the box whenever you want your number of connection sessions to increase."
"The solution could be simplified."
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Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense, Sangfor SSL VPN and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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