We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and OPNsense 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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"Five out of five ROI."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"I find the solution to be user-friendly. It has a lot of reports and easy settings."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"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."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"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 provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 35 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.2. 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 OPNsense writes "Good interface and firewall capabilities and overall easy to use". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OpenVPN Access Server, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and A10 Networks Thunder CFW, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. OPNsense report.
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