We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"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."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"Palo Alto firewalls are scalable enough. We have about 110 employees in our company, and we are about to expand to 130."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is its management abilities. Additionally, the updates are very good."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"If we have issues, they take anywhere from two days to a week to respond. I even wrote to their CEO because there was no response. When it comes to support, this is the worst company."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"The scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"The product should get frequent updates allowing us to add new signatures."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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