We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"It has been stable so far."
"The graphical interface is easy to troubleshoot because it has a drill-down sequence. It is easy to monitor traffic."
"It helps the organization function better by virtue of cleaner and more predictive Internet access and usage being conducted by the employees and constituents of the company. It helps ensure that they have a stronger security posture. It is preventive medicine If you have DNS Security in place. You will be happy you had it. If you don't have it, you may never need it. However, if you did need it, and didn't have it, you will wish that you did. It is one of those things, like insurance."
"It's a next-generation firewall and it's pretty stable. You don't have to worry about if you restart it for some maintenance. It will just come back."
"We standardized on the product and got rid of several other types of firewalls from different vendors."
"The most valuable feature is the security provided by the ATP."
"The best features of this solution are URL filtering and traffic visibility."
"It's one of the best products I've worked with. It's typically a market leader on Gartner. It's a very respected brand."
"The most valuable features of this solution are all of the services it provides."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"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."
"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."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high. It's one of the most expensive firewall solutions on the market."
"I like the reports, but I wish the reporting was a little better. When I set up the automatic reports to come in, they're pretty basic. I would like them to be a little more advanced at the ACC monitoring and things like that. I still enjoy all the daily alerts that I get and all the daily PDFs and reports, but I just feel that it could expand upon the visualization of the reports."
"The pricing could be improved. They need to work on the setup over the firewall, VLAN, and PPPoE."
"From a documentation standpoint, there is room for improvement. Even Palo Alto says that their documentation is terrible."
"Unfortunately, Palo Alto Networks products aren't cheap, but you have to pay the price for good security technology. I don't know the exact price, but it's about $10,000 to $15,000 without a subscription. Cisco is priced similarly. FortiGate is inexpensive in Poland, so a lot of customers prefer that."
"The cloud could be improved. I would like to have more visibility of the vulnerabilities of the network as well."
"I would like a collaboration system and reporting ASA policy needs to be smarter."
"Technical support is an area that could be improved."
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Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 161 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". 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 T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense.
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