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."The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"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."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the central management, the user VPN, and communications."
"What I like about his program, is that it is easy to use and easy to manage."
"This solution is very user-friendly and even a non-professional can configure the policies."
"The interface is user-friendly and the product is easy to configure."
"The dashboard is customizable as well. It gives you the feature of including what you need to see as soon as you open the dashboard and to remove the non-necessary stuff, which varies from one organization to the next and from one IT manager to the next. And it has a wide variety of reports as well, template and customizable reports."
"The most useful aspect of the solution is the concept of integrated security."
"As a security solution, it's a very good security solution."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it's easy to manage."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"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."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"Could have a more simplified functionality for users."
"When you are using it as a controller for the wireless access points, it doesn't perform well. It is not suitable for the public cloud. It is more suitable for enterprise data. It is not really the equipment for cloud data centers. I am looking for a data center firewall."
"The only issue that Sophos XG now needs to improve is the product's reporting capability."
"It could offer a DNS Filter for blocking botnet networks."
"The MTR feature needs enhancing."
"For the moment, managing the Sophos interface is a little bit challenging."
"One area where Sophos XG could improve is in its patch management system."
"It is already secure but it could be better in terms of other breaches that may occur."
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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