We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"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."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"GlobalProtect and App-ID features are very good."
"Palo Alto NGFW’s unified platform has helped our customers eliminate security holes. With a unified platform, customers can deploy the NG Firewall both in the data center edge, inside the data center, and in the product/public cloud environments. They have the same user interfaces and platform, so they can be maintained by a single unified platform called Panorama. Customers can use Palo Alto Network NG Firewalls in all the places where they need to protect their environments. This helps to decrease security holes."
"It's quite nice. It's very user-friendly, powerful, and there are barely any bugs."
"A feature introduced by Palo Alto with the version 10-OS is embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. Machine learning analyzes the network traffic and detects if there is any usual traffic coming from outside to inside. Because of Palo Alto, organizations detect around 91% of malicious attacks using machine learning. The machine learning helps customers by implementing firewalls in critical and air gap areas so there is no need to integrate with the cloud sandbox."
"There are many valuable features, such as wireless cloud features."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls saves us time."
"I like that it has high security."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the network protection."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Application management can be improved."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The cost has room for improvement."
"Technical support could be faster."
"In my opinion, the training provided is satisfactory, but there is certainly room for improvement. It would be great to have more comprehensive training at a lower cost, or even for free."
"The solution could be simplified."
"The pricing could be improved. They need to work on the setup over the firewall, VLAN, and PPPoE."
"As part of our internet filtering, we integrate heavily with Active Directory, and we use security groups to separate staff into two groups: those who should have full access to the internet and those who should have limited access. It may be just the way the topology is for our domain controllers and that infrastructure, but at peak usage, there seems to be a delay in reading back against the security group to find out what group the user is in."
"The initial configuration is complicated to set up."
"There is a bit of limitation with its next-generation capabilities. They could be better. In terms of logs, I feel like I am a bit limited as an administrator. While I see a lot of logs, and that is good, it could be better."
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Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 161 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense.
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