We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Hillstone E-Series 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."Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"We have found the central management (Smart Console) to be very helpful in managing all the firewalls and keeping the software/hotfix versions up to date."
"The characteristics on offer have come to give an added value under a single investment, thus offering many advantages."
"One of the most valuable features is performance improvement, wherewith ClusterXL and CoreXL, you can improve performance."
"I like the dashboard, redundancy, log analysis, threat prevention and ISP, and VPN."
"The security posture assessment with two-factor authentication has saved more time and commercial costs by avoiding deploying having to deploy another solution."
"The product is flexible."
"The tool has solid firmware with very few vulnerabilities."
"The sales, pre-sales, professional services, and tech support are all very nice."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Five out of five ROI."
"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 installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"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."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"In the future, some of the features that I would like to see would be the ability to integrate environmental solutions such as the metaverse or blockchain so that we can see them also in applications directly and on mobile devices or natively."
"The URL objects take significant time in processing compared to other products like Cisco FTD; it would be better if they could improve it."
"The anti-spam needs improvement."
"The naming in the inline layers and ordered layers needs improvement. It makes things very complicated. I've seen quite a lot of people saying that. For audit policies, it is okay since it's very simple to see. However, this area is for very large organizations, which have too many policies, and they need to share all these policies. For small to medium-sized businesses, they don't need it. Even if somebody has 500 rules, if they try to use it, it can be very confusing."
"The policy installation module should be improved."
"The current reporting capability needs to be parsed and edited to be appreciated by leadership."
"The speed of technical support is very slow and is something that should be improved."
"Management: Check Point should move away from its current architecture wherein it mandatorily requires a management server to manage the gateways. They should develop A feature in the gateway itself so that no management server is needed for policy and gateway management."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"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."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"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."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Hillstone E-Series report.
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