We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Hillstone T-Series 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."The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"One thing I like about the product is the logging features, the way it logs, the way it forwards the logs in Syslog."
"Collaboration with other Cisco products such as ISE and others is the most valuable feature."
"I'm a big fan of SecureX, Cisco's platform for tying together all the different security tools. It has a lot of flexibility and even a lot of third-party or non-Cisco integration. I feel like that's a really valuable tool."
"It is extremely stable I would say — at least after you deploy it."
"Unfortunately in Cisco, only the hardware was good."
"You can also put everything into a nice, neat, little package, as far as configuration goes. I was formerly a command-line guy with the ASA, and I was a little nervous about dealing with a GUI interface versus a command line, but after I did my first deployment, I got a lot more comfortable with doing it GUI based."
"The GUI is among the most valuable features,"
"Once configured to suit your needs, these firewalls are rock solid appliances."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"It has been stable so far."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The pricing could always be better."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"In terms of functionality, there isn't much to improve. There could be more bandwidth and better interface speed."
"When you make any changes, irrespective of whether they are big or small, Firepower takes too much time. It is very time-consuming. Even for small changes, you have to wait for 60 seconds or maybe more, which is not good. Similarly, when you have many IPS rules and policies, it slows down, and there is an impact on its performance."
"We have seen some bugs come up with Cisco Secure Firewall in terms of high availability. The solution should be improved to avoid these bugs."
"The artificial intelligence and machine learning (behavioral based threat detection), which I can this will be coming out in another year, these are what we need now."
"Report generation is an area that should be improved."
"This is an older product and has reached end-of-life."
"I don't have any specific improvements to recommend. However, when you compare the throughput of a Cisco firewall to the competitors, especially Fortinet, what you find is that Cisco has lagged a little bit behind in terms of firewall throughput, especially for the price that you pay for that throughput."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"Licensing is not cheap."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Hillstone T-Series report.
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