We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Hillstone T-Series 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."The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Integration with all the other Cisco tools is valuable."
"Unfortunately in Cisco, only the hardware was good."
"ASA 5505 and ASA 5506 are very powerful tools to use in a business environment, and provide a lot of security."
"The GUI is among the most valuable features,"
"The features I have found most valuable are the ASA firewalls. I like to have features like most integrated systems in ACI."
"It's a flexible solution."
"I like its integration with the AnyConnect client. I also like how modular it is. For example, I can easily integrate the Umbrella add-on into it. We are planning on adding Umbrella. We haven't added it yet, but we have researched."
"Cisco offers a great educational series to train users on their devices."
"It has been stable so far."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"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."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"One big pain point I have is the ASDM interface because it's Java, and sometimes, it's a bit buggy and has low performance. That's something that probably won't be improved because of backward compatibility."
"Firewalls, in general, were not really designed for normal IT personnel, but for firewall and network experts. Therefore, they missed a lot of options and did not provide any good reporting or improvement options."
"The solution’s GUI could be better."
"It could use a web-based portal for VPN. Earlier they had it in the ASA model, but currently they don't have it."
"There are some limitations with SSL. Regarding the security assessment for the ISO 27000 standard, there are certain features that Cisco needs to scale up. Not all products support it, so you need to be slightly careful, especially on the site track."
"The inclusion of an autofill feature would improve the ease of commands."
"We are still running the original ASAs. The software that you are running for the ASDM software and Java application has never been a lot of fun to operate. It would have been nice to see that change update be redesigned with modern systems, which don't play nicely with Java sometimes. Cybersecurity doesn't seem to love how that operates. For us, a fresher application, taking advantage of the hardware, would have been a better approach."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"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."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4. 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 T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". 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 T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Hillstone T-Series report.
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