We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and Sophos UTM 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."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"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."
"It has been stable so far."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution is stable."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"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."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"There is still room for improvement in wireless protection. I don't mean their WiFi device is bad, but there are still things to improve on, such as WiFi roaming."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Hillstone T-Series vs. Sophos UTM report.
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