We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Hillstone T-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"We have not had any issues with the firewall."
"My customers cite performance and ease of configuration as two of the solution's most valuable features."
"The successful performance of the security blades has shown the value of the investment along with the comparable success of leveraging the NGFW over a separate specialized security solution."
"Check Point helps a lot with automatization which definitely reduces the effort to maintain the environment."
"I use it as well as a VM. We use it a lot because we have all fiber optic connections, so we could use almost all of that. The federation is beautiful because I can transfer all traffic to my main site where I can use just one link to the internet, and I can use it as a proxy as well. It is good to keep control and security."
"The solution is scalable."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"The failover from one device to the other has been seamless and we find that we do not lose ongoing SIP calls or Teams chats."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"It has been stable so far."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Although very efficient, the product could be developed in a way that does not take a lot more system resources."
"With the increase of volume of traffic, the required resource/hardware to properly run goes up. Therefore, the hardware engineering to architecture flow has to be more efficient."
"I really want to see geo-blocking as a feature of NGFW."
"I would like there to be a way to run packets that capture more easily in the GUI environment. Right now, if we want to read packet captures, we have to do so from the command line."
"Although they have it now, we don't have a license for it, and I think mobile device security should be a standard feature. I cannot control someone bringing their device to my network and what they do."
"There is no email security."
"No product is perfect and there is always room for improvement."
"Improvement regarding the expansion of the SMS's compatibility to include various virtualization environments would be beneficial."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Licensing is not cheap."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4. 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 T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox.
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