We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"Content Filtering and sandboxing are valuable features."
"The functionality is the same whether it is on hardware or a virtual appliance. The interface is the same. It's nice that it's standardized."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"What I like best about SonicWall NSa is the security it offers compared to other solutions in the market. Its reduction rate is also better than others."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The problem primarily with SonicWall is it's a Unix box. And it's all software, all the activities, blocking, censoring, everything has to happen in the software. If you start hitting the box with a lot of sessions it slows down and that's not what I expect from a firewall."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"Potential improvement around the associated VPN cost"
"We also use the Sophos Firewall for web configuration, which we don't have in SonicWall. Only Sophos has those options. If SonicWall included that feature, that would be a benefit for us."
"The security standards for space and point of view should be improved so that the solution deploys in critical areas."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"It doesn't require much improvement. The only improvement area is that cloud reporting, assessment reporting, and other reporting features should be available with the subscription. They should provide reporting features with the subscription base, which is currently not there. We bought the reporting tool, but there are some complications. They have made some changes to the application, and now the reporting management is completely on the cloud."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense.
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