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."The solution is scalable."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The performance is good."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"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."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"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."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"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."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"The support could be better."
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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