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."It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"It provides security for our company and users."
"I have experience with URL filtering, and it is very good for URL filtering. You can filter URLs based on the categories, and it does a good job. It can also do deep packet inspection."
"Cisco offers a great educational series to train users on their devices."
"Cisco's engineer helped us with a lot of scripting to see what existed. Previously, we didn't have a proper policy. In fact, we didn't have any policy because we didn't have any firewall for the data center, so generating a policy was a big challenge. Cisco's engineer helped us to do some scripting and find out what kind of policy we can have and organize those policies. That was nice."
"The stability is very good; there's no vagueness. Either it works or it doesn't, and it's also very easy to find out why."
"The IP filter configuration for specific political and Static NAT has been most valuable."
"We chose Cisco because it had the full package that we were looking for."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"On firewall features, Fortinet is better. Cisco needs to become more competitive and add more features or meet Fortinet's offering."
"Cisco Secure Firewall’s customer support could be improved."
"Initial setup can be complex. It is complex. We have to set up ASA, SFR module, and FMC separately, which sometimes requires extensive troubleshooting, even for smaller issues."
"It doesn't have a proper GUI to do troubleshooting, so most people have to rely on the command line."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"The annual subscription cost is a bit high. They should try to make it comparable to other offerings. We have a number of Chinese products here in Pakistan, which are already, very cheap and have less annual maintenance costs compared to Cisco."
"There's a little bit of a disconnect between Firepower’s management and the rest of the products, like DNA and Prime. The solution should have fewer admin portals for network, security, and firewalls."
"FMC could be improved because management with FMC is quite difficult compared to using Firepower web-based management."
"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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