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."We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"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."
"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."
"A stable, reliable solution used to protect the network's perimeter."
"It's very stable and mature."
"The benefits we see from the ASA are connected to teleworking as well as, of course, having the basic functionality of a firewall in place and the prevention of attacks."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"URL filtering is valuable."
"Cisco Secure Firewall improved our organization. We have it in every one of our French offices."
"The most valuable feature would be the IP blocking. It gets rid of things that you don't need in your environment."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is 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."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"One of the problems that we have had is the solution requires Java to work. This has caused some problems with the application visibility and control. When the Java works, it is good, but Java wasn't a good choice. I don't like the Java implementation. It can be difficult to work with sometimes."
"The Cisco Firewall UI could be improved."
"There was an error in the configuration, related to our uplink switches, that caused us to contact technical support, and it took a very long time to resolve the issue."
"The price can be better."
"Security must be increased when a new user connects over the LAN and an alarm must be generated."
"The worst part of the entire solution, and this is kind of trivial at times, is that management of the solution is difficult. You manage FireSIGHT through an internet browser. I've had Cisco tell me to manage it through Firefox because that's how they develop it. The problem is, depending on the page you're on, they don't function in the same way. The pages can be very buggy, or you can't resize columns in this one, or you can't do certain things in that one. It causes a headache in managing it."
"The GUI interface could be improved when compared to other solutions."
"It is surprising that you need to have a virtual appliance for the Firepower Management Center. It is not good if you have to setup a VMware server just for it."
"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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