We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series and Sophos UTM 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."Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"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."
"It has been stable so far."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"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."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Hillstone T-Series vs. Sophos UTM report.
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