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."FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"It is a safe product."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"I especially like the VPN part. It works like a charm."
"I had some outages in the network and we provide services for our company. We sell mobile credits. The terminal gets access to our own server inside the network and if one internet fails, then the other one is still up and we have a back-up link on the devices."
"pfSense allows us to spread the hours of connection and do the filtering on the pfSense site."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"Super easy to manage. Anyone who has been working with firewalls can handle it."
"The solution is very easy to use and has a very nice GUI."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"The GUI is easy to understand."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The solution’s interface must be improved."
"In terms of areas of improvement, the interface seemed like it had a lot. The GUI interface that I had gotten into was rather elaborate. I don't know if they could zero in on some markets and potentially for small, medium businesses specifically, give them a stripped-down version of the GUI for pfSense."
"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 should integrate with LDAP, Active Directory, etc, to improve the way in which the traces and connections of each IP, or user connected through the firewall, are shown."
"It's just not listed as FIPS compliant for where we're at now in government, which is an issue."
"More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome."
"Netgate pfSense needs to improve the configuration for a VPN."
"The GUI could use improvements, though it is manageable."
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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