We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and SonicWall NSa 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 improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"Five out of five ROI."
"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."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"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 installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"Support has improved dramatically since their separation from Dell."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the GUI pre-filtering and the ATP (advanced threat protection)."
"The product is working okay. The product is working feature-wise."
"The most valuable feature I've found is VPN and web protection, particularly with navigation assessment. We use the application control feature to create rules controlling specific application navigation."
"Anti-Spam reduces unwanted mail on corporate exchange services."
"I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides."
"SonicWall's sales support is much better than other vendors'."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"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."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The scalability is something that should be improved."
"I feel that the SSL VPN client software needs a lot of improvement."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"In terms of improvement, features like App Control do not work properly"
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"The product has a lot of bugs, actually. We are facing some issues with this product. The DPI SSL feature which is there, it is not working properly."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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