We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and SonicWall TZ 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."I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"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."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access."
"Its user interface and simplicity are the most favorite parts for our clients. They find it stable and easy to use. Its performance is also good."
"It's a very cost-effective solution."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The site-to-site VPN connections, content filtering, and in our current remote working situation, SSL VPN remote desktop connectivity are the most valuable features."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"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."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"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 interface and technical support are probably the two most important things that I would like SonicWall to improve."
"The stability could be a lot better."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"Pricing could be lowered slightly."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"User interface could be improved."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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