We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Hillstone T-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."The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The technical support is great."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The VPN feature is the most valuable to us because it accomplishes the task well. We're able to do everything we need to do."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the anti-malware protection. It protects the endpoints on my network."
"The solution is excellent for enterprise-level networks."
"Cisco has the best documentation. You can easily find multiple documents by searching the web. Even a child can go online and find the required information."
"Feature-wise, we mostly use IPS because it is a security requirement to protect against attacks from outside and inside. This is where IPS helps us out a bunch."
"It's very scalable. You can go to different models of the ASAs and they scale up to as big as you want to go."
"The most valuable feature is the access control list (ACL)."
"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."
"It has been stable so far."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"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."
"REST API stability needs improvement in order for customizing resource allocation available to the user rather than just being there transparently. This way users can customize REST API and tailor it to their needs."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"We are still running the original ASAs. The software that you are running for the ASDM software and Java application has never been a lot of fun to operate. It would have been nice to see that change update be redesigned with modern systems, which don't play nicely with Java sometimes. Cybersecurity doesn't seem to love how that operates. For us, a fresher application, taking advantage of the hardware, would have been a better approach."
"Cisco's inspection visibility could be better."
"Licensing is complex, and I'd like it to be simplified. This is an area for improvement."
"The management of the firewalls could be improved because there are a lot of bugs."
"One area that could be improved is its logging functionality. Your logs are usually displayed on the screen, but if you want to go back one or two days, then you need another solution in place because those logs are overwritten within minutes."
"Multiple WAN connections: Even though you can implement more than one interface to outside connections, it is lacking on load balances, etc."
"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."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4. 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 T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". 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 T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Hillstone T-Series report.
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