We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"The technical support is good."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"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."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. 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 WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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