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."FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"It is a secure product."
"The most valuable feature is that it's secure."
"REST API offering with rich capabilities which makes the product very robust."
"Our company operates in Saudi Arabia, primarily working with government sectors. If any hardware malfunctions, the defective device is removed, and we receive a replacement from the reseller. We have not encountered any issues related to delays in receiving replacements for malfunctioning devices which has been beneficial."
"The most valuable feature is the Intrusion Prevention System."
"Right now, Cisco ASA NGFW has given us a lot of improvement. We are planning to move to a new facility and will be a much larger organization."
"We use the solution for deep packet inspection, Internet Edge functionality, IDS, and IDP."
"Clustering architecture which offers zero downtime upgrades, keeping uptime close to 99.999%."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Cisco Secure Firewall's integration with cloud providers has room for improvement. We could do more in terms of integration, for example, if we had a tag on an instance."
"With the new FTD, there is a little bit of a learning curve."
"The Cisco Firewall UI could be improved."
"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could offer an open interface to other security products so that we could easily connect to our own open industry standard."
"Lacks a good graphical user interface."
"I'm not a big fan of the FDM (Firepower Device Manager) that comes with Firepower. I found out that you need to use the Firepower Management Center, the FMC, to manage the firewalls a lot better. You can get a lot more granular with the configuration in the FMC, versus the FDM that comes out-of-the-box with it. FDM is like Firepower for dummies."
"I would like for them to develop better integration with other security platforms."
"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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