We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Hillstone CloudEdge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"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 very easy to configure."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"They wanted to leverage something which is equivalent that can give them the next gen features like application awareness and intrusion protection. So that is a major reason they were looking forward to this. The original ASA firewall did not have these features. This was the major reason the customer moved on to Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). Now they can go ahead and leverage those functionalities."
"Its efficiency and security are the most important. We are more efficient and more secure."
"The product offers good scalability."
"REST API offering with rich capabilities which makes the product very robust."
"For us, the most valuable features are the IPX and the Sourcefire Defense Center module. That gives us visibility into the traffic coming in and going out, and gives us the heads-up if there is a potential outbreak or potential malicious user who is trying to access the site. It also helps us see traffic generated by an end device trying to reach out to the world."
"The most valuable feature that Cisco Firepower NGFW provides for us is the Intrusion policy."
"Its ability to work with the traffic."
"The features I have found most valuable are the ASA firewalls. I like to have features like most integrated systems in ACI."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"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 setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"VPNs are weak as this product still does not support route-based VPNs."
"This is an older product and has reached end-of-life."
"The virtual firewalls don't work very well with Cisco AnyConnect."
"We would like to be able to manage a set of firewalls rather than individual firewalls. We haven't really looked into it or yet implemented it, but a single pane of glass would be helpful. We also use another vendor's firewalls, and they have a centralized management infrastructure that we have implemented, which makes it a little bit easier when you're managing lots of firewalls."
"Virtual patching would be helpful for servers that are not able to update patches due to compatibility issues."
"We are replacing ASA with FTD which offers many new features not available using ASA."
"We see a lot of vendors in the market with a lot of niche products. I understand that it's difficult to cover everything, but making it more open for integration with other vendors would be a value add for Cisco."
"There's a little bit of a disconnect between Firepower’s management and the rest of the products, like DNA and Prime. The solution should have fewer admin portals for network, security, and firewalls."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with .
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