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."Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"It has been stable so far."
"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."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"The solution is stable."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"It is easy to manage."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The support system could be improved."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"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."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"They could reduce the price."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
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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