We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Sangfor NGAF 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 IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The product offers very good security."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. The technical support team are very good and very quick."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Sangfor NGAF is its integration."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"It offers application control features."
"Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"While the features are not dissimilar to other brands, configuration is much more simple, which works out great for Indonesian people."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"The scalability could be better."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The tool is expensive."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"I would be happy if Sangfor developed a firewall designed specifically for home use, as well as for small businesses such as clinics and so on. A household version of the Sangfor firewall for your personal computer or laptop would be ideal, in my opinion."
"The interface and user experience are horrible."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Sangfor SSL VPN, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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