We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable features of pfSense are security, user-friendliness, and helpful online management."
"We've found the stability to be very good overall."
"It is a very good solution for enterprises that need a VPN for their employees. It is the best way to provide a remote work facility to employees at a very low cost. Other solutions that I have had in the past were very expensive. Enterprises don't always have that kind of money to invest."
"My company mainly works in the health and educational domain, schools and universities. I prevent the improper use of content from schools and universities. I defend the medical records for the patients in our hospitals. That is the main use case for me for the firewall."
"I handle the scanning for the finance department. I recently encountered an issue with the PCL bills, our company bills. I resolved the matter, cleared the bill, and received calls regarding it using pfsense.The user interface is extremely user-friendly, which is why we use it across various plant sites. Our IT representatives at the plants find it easy to use and manage because of its straightforward interface."
"An incomparable stability is achieved with other firewall systems."
"It has a very nice web interface, and it is very simple to use. The way policies are working is also good."
"It is effective. We have not had any problems."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"I believe improving integration with various antivirus vendors could be beneficial."
"Adjustment in the interfaces: I had to adjust those interfaces manually and of course that is a great feature that you can restore it but it is immediately also one point for improvement. If you don't have to adjust, if it's just stamped and it works, that's great."
"The solution requires a lot of administration."
"We are at the moment looking to use it as a proxy service so that we can limit what websites people go and view and that sort of thing. That's an area I've struggled with a little bit at the moment and it could be a bit easier to set up."
"The security could be improved."
"Also, simplifying the rules for the GeoIP. Making it simpler to understand would be an improvement."
"There are several levels of firewall configuration such as beginner, advanced, and expert configurations. At each level, it becomes more complex and more tricky to set up the firewall. For example, if you want to install the firewall on your computer system, it would be a lot easier if it just tells you that this is the internet NIC and this is the Wi-Fi NIC."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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