We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The solution is stable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"It is a stable solution. It is also easy to install and can be deployed and maintained by one team member."
"Sophos Intercept X is scalable. Currently, we have almost 30 people using it in our company."
"The solution is fairly scalable when it comes to integrating with other applications and data sets."
"The tools' most valuable feature is load balancing."
"A free firewall that is a good network security appliance."
"Super easy to manage. Anyone who has been working with firewalls can handle it."
"The solution is very easy to use and configure."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The router monitoring needs improvement when compared with Sonicwall."
"A way to clean squid cache from the GUI."
"A malware blocker should be included. I do not know if it is included yet. However, until now, we have not experienced a large malware invasion."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"It needs to be more secure."
"Reporting and real-time monitoring, since I'm used to Watchguard's reporting features, it would be nice to have an embedded solution for reporting."
"We are at the moment looking to use it as a proxy service so that we can limit what websites people go and view and that sort of thing. That's an area I've struggled with a little bit at the moment and it could be a bit easier to set up."
"It requires more attention to provide a better alternative for open source to small government or educational institutions with reduced budgets in terms of technology."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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