We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Huawei NGFW based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"It performs very well."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. The technical support team are very good and very quick."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Five out of five ROI."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"The solution's performance is good with IPSec."
"We make use of the new data center, specifically the containerized data center which is built and reviewed by Huawei, including all the device's infrastructure."
"The security is good. It's as effective as anything else on the market."
"It enables us to configure different policies and restrictions for specific users within the same subnet."
"The solution's implementation is pretty easy."
"The UI is quite good."
"Huawei was able to assist us in the installation of their product. The installation was very fast."
"I like that the initial setup is straighforward. It's also a scalable solution."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"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."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The WAF capability in the Huawei Firewall is missing."
"The solution does not have sandboxing features."
"The IPS feature must be improved."
"Wi-Fi scanning and Wi-Fi analysis would be useful features to include in the future."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"With the Huawei firewall, none of the features comes at the top. We found out later that customer support is really not good. For this firewall, because of our customers' routine, for example, every six months they'll do a penetration test to find weaknesses. So whenever they came up with VAPT reports, they are looking to Huawei for help. I think that's basically because it's a different culture. Chinese culture and our culture is different. They have always tried to help find some excuses or say some other things that cannot help you solve the problem immediately."
"Huawei NGFW should have better reporting and a dashboard for the visibility of traffic."
"There needs to be more security equipment for the solution."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Huawei NGFW is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 18 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Huawei NGFW is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Huawei NGFW writes "A scalable and easy-to-setup product that can be used to configure different policies for specific users". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX, whereas Huawei NGFW is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Huawei NGFW report.
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