We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Hillstone CloudEdge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"It performs very well."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The solution is stable."
"For us, the most valuable features are the IPX and the Sourcefire Defense Center module. That gives us visibility into the traffic coming in and going out, and gives us the heads-up if there is a potential outbreak or potential malicious user who is trying to access the site. It also helps us see traffic generated by an end device trying to reach out to the world."
"ASA integrates with FirePOWER, IPS functionality, malware filtering, etc. This functionality wasn't there in the past. With its cloud architecture, Cisco can filter traffic at the engine layer. Evasive encryptions can be entered into the application, like BitTorrent or Skype. This wasn't possible to control through a traditional firewall."
"We can easily track unauthorized users and see where traffic is going."
"The most valuable feature we have found to be the VPN because we use it often."
"Firepower has been used for quite a few enterprise clients. Most of our clients are Fortune 500 and Firepower is used to improve their end to end firewall functionality."
"The best features are stability and scalability."
"The remote VPN and IPsec VPN or site-to-site VPN features are valuable. The clustering feature is also valuable. We have two ISP links. Whenever there is a failover, users don't even get to know. The transition is very smooth, and the users don't notice any latency. So, remote VPN, site-to-site VPN, and failover are three very powerful features of Cisco ASA."
"I haven't had any major problems so I haven't had to open a ticket with technical support."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"It needs more available central management."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"We have to rely on Cisco ASDM to access the firewall interface. This needs improvement. Because we have a web-based interface, and it is a lot more user-friendly."
"Cisco is not cheap, however, it is worth investing in these technologies."
"The maturity needs to be better."
"I would like to see them release a patch for ASAv with cross-platform FirePower integration."
"I would like the ability to pick and choose different features of it to run in a packaged infrastructure or modules, therefore I would like to have more customizability over it."
"In the future, I would like to be able to use an IP phone over a VPN connection."
"The visibility for VPN is one big part. The policy administration could be improved in terms of customizations and flexibility for changing it to our needs."
"The Cisco Secure Firewall could benefit from enhancements in its API, documentation, and automation tools."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0. 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 CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". 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 CloudEdge is most compared with .
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