We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Sophos XG 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."Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. The technical support team are very good and very quick."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"The firewall functionality and unified threat management are the most useful features."
"The product has all the latest features."
"The solution is very easy to use and straightforward."
"It is very user friendly and easy to manage from the administrative point of view. It is good, reliable, and easy to implement."
"Using Sophos endpoint and the firewall, synchronized security is easy."
"The firewall provides network visibility and reporting capabilities, constantly improving over time. It can be integrated with the cloud console, allowing centralized management of multiple firewalls. integration with endpoint security products ensures seamless traffic flow and rule enforcement, even when endpoints are not directly connected to the firewall."
"The solution is a next generation firewall and we have gotten good customer feedback."
"IPS works smoothly."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"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."
"They've become quite expensive."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"There have been some issues when upgrading. For some reason, parts of the configuration become unconfigured, I then have to reconfigure it. I should not need to keep reconfiguring it after upgrades."
"Their technical support needs improvement. I've been on hold with them for hours waiting for their support."
"Over the last six months, we have noticed that the hardware is slow, especially the VPN connections."
"This solution could be improved with more effective bandwidth. I found that when I enable DDoS detection for our clients, bandwidth is reduced. If DDoS detection is disabled, the bandwidth will be high, but it isn't secure. We recommend that customers enable DDoS detection, but if they need high bandwidth, we recommend Palo Alto and FortiGate instead of Sophos."
"I wish to see an antivirus feature added to the solution."
"I would like to have a more efficient login process."
"In Sophos XG, the throughput for larger networks is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"While it is a secure solution, I believe it could be improved."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense, Sangfor SSL VPN and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Sophos XG report.
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