We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Sophos XG 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 policy routing and application control."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"We created and configured a VPN for connecting our remote sites and also to make it more secure and reliable. We also like its two-factor authentication features."
"The performance of Sophos XG is generally good and it is stable."
"Sophos firewalls are scalable. They are pretty strong in security. So, when they provide any kind of firewall, they provide all the features such as anti-spam, antivirus, etc."
"I have found configuring the ports to be easier in Sophos XG compared to the other devices."
"Sophos XG has cybersecurity. It integrates with the antivirus software."
"Sophos XG is very useful, it does many things."
"I like it for its simplicity. It is very simple to configure and implement. It is a very good product for medium-sized organizations."
"Excellent product, meets most of the security needs of companies of various sizes. You can buy it without fear."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The user interface could be improved."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"I'd like to see better reporting. While the logs are great, the reports are not."
"The pricing can be high unless you choose a longer contract."
"Technical support is difficult to access."
"Better instructions should be provided as part of the technical support so that we can understand the functionalities. This will help us to troubleshoot faster."
"It would be beneficial if the platform provided more flexible support for a variety of devices."
"The GUI and support could be better. I think there are other products that we are going to deploy instead of Sophos. We have already upgraded a month ago because the interfaces and support for Sophos are really weak. But other products like Juniper, Cisco, or FortiGate are better than Sophos. It's also complicated, and the end-user or client does not understand it."
"The SD-WAN could be improved."
"The SD-WAN capability is not as good as it is in FortiGate, and is something that should be improved."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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