We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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 features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"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."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The solution is user-friendly. It's secure and easy to understand your network visibility, control the network, and prevent attacks."
"We have not had to replace hardware routers nor purchase additional hardware. So, that has provided a little bit of an ROI."
"The solution does a great job of identifying malicious items and vulnerabilities with URL filtering."
"It has a solid network security with some robust tools. We can block unexpected attacks, especially zero-day attacks. Since they use the Pan-OS engine, they can collect attacks from all over the world and analyze them. They can then protect against zero-day attacks and unexpected attacks."
"The solution is very stable."
"Operationally, it is easier, and the manageability and their security features are good."
"The configuration is very simple."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is pre-sales and post-sales because of the support and relationship building."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Its price could be better."
"It needs more available central management."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"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."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The solution needs some management tool enhancements. It could also use more reporting tools."
"Technical support can be faster at responding."
"The pricing could be improved upon."
"Palo Alto should improve their support. It's sometimes difficult to get the right technician or engineer to fix the problem as soon as possible."
"The initial configuration is complicated to set up."
"The SD-WAN product is fairly new. They could probably improve that in terms of customizing it and making the configuration a little bit easier."
"In my opinion, the training provided is satisfactory, but there is certainly room for improvement. It would be great to have more comprehensive training at a lower cost, or even for free."
"Its scalability for on-prem deployments can be better. For an on-prem deployment, the hardware has to be replaced if the volume goes up to a certain level."
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Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 161 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and A10 Networks Thunder CFW, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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