We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Palo Alto Networks VM-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 customization potential is quite impressive."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"Five out of five ROI."
"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 most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"The most effective features for threat prevention are application-based prevention and WildFire. These features cover various threats, such as ransomware, malware, etc. They provide real-time visibility. By applying appropriate policies, threats can be blocked."
"It scales linearly with load and no issues."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"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."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"We have ran into issues with Palo Alto’s limitations for resolving large IP lists from DNS lookups, as well as the antivirus interfering with App-ID."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"Palo Alto is that it is really bad when it comes to technical support."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". 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 VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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