We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"It has been stable so far."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"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."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"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."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"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."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. 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 Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF, Hillstone E-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security and Nozomi Networks.
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