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."The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The solution is scalable."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The AnyConnect remote access VPN gives us an easy way to deploy remote working for our users."
"Cisco Secure Firewall's security solutions, advanced malware protection, and DDoS communication are very good."
"The most valuable feature is IPS. It's a feature that's very interesting for tackling the most current attacks."
"It is extremely stable I would say — at least after you deploy it."
"The remote access, VPN, and ACL features are valuable. We are using role-based access for individuals."
"REST API offering with rich capabilities which makes the product very robust."
"Cisco Secure Firewall is a good solution. In some ways, it is a reactive solution and we have it sitting in a whitelist mode rather than a blacklist mode. It seems to work fairly well for us."
"The most valuable features for my client are the ASDM and monitoring."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"I'm not very familiar with the largest Firepower models, but competitors like Palo Alto seem to have a more capable engine to do, for instance, TLS/SSL decryption. As I understand, Firepower doesn't let you export the decrypted traffic so that, for instance, the security department can look at the traffic or inspect traffic. It's all in the box. I've heard rumors that this is something Cisco is working on, but it isn't yet available."
"They really need support for deployment."
"The solution needs to have better logging features."
"One feature lacking is superior anti-virus protection, which must be added."
"I would like for the user interface to be easier for the admin and network admin. I would also like to be able to access everything from the GUI interface. The way it is now, it needs somebody experience in iOS to be able to operate it. I would like to have a GUI interface."
"The configuration in Firepower Management Center is very slow. Deployment takes two to three minutes. You spend a lot of time on modifications. Whereas, in FortiGate, you press a button, and it takes one second."
"Nowadays, nobody is in the office, so I need to figure out how to put the firewall outside. If I could have a centralized firewall that also receives information from external locations, like peoples' home offices, that would help us consolidate everything into one appliance."
"I would like to see an IE version of the solution where it is ruggedized."
"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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