We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS SSL VPN and Hillstone E-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN provides fast connectivity and the option to connect through multiple servers."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is integrated with domain controller, SSO and MFA."
"It is highly scalable, speedy, and reliable."
"Cisco IOS SSL VPN is stable, and once we connect, we don't face any issues and can do our work."
"The solution's technical support is very good."
"A reliable and stable solution for remote network access."
"It is a product that is very robust and durable."
"With Cisco IOS SSL VPN, you can access your corporate data safely and securely."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"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."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The pricing needs to be better."
"In addition to Cisco, we work with other solutions on behalf of our customers, such as Fortinet for FortiGate, but this latter solution can achieve the same results at a lower price."
"The product's RPA tools need enhancement for simplified business process automation."
"The system needs to be upgraded to replace the Token Authentication software, which will no longer be supported."
"Enhancing the client certificate deployment process could be a valuable improvement, ensuring smoother and more reliable certificate renewal experiences in the future."
"The only issue with Cisco IOS SSL VPN is on the price point. Price is an area of the solution where improvements are required."
"The pricing is a stumbling block to scaling our utilization of Cisco products and we would prefer to use more of them."
"The administration should be improved."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"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."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
Cisco IOS SSL VPN is ranked 1st in SSL VPN with 47 reviews while Hillstone E-Series is ranked 8th in SSL VPN with 9 reviews. Cisco IOS SSL VPN is rated 8.6, while Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS SSL VPN writes "The solution is very stable and scalable, but it is expensive, and the configuration is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". Cisco IOS SSL VPN is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Zyxel VPN Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Ivanti Connect Secure and Citrix Gateway, whereas Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server and Netgate pfSense. See our Cisco IOS SSL VPN vs. Hillstone E-Series report.
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