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."The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"IPS and Snort are very important because they also differentiate Cisco from other vendors and competitors."
"The whole firewall functionality, including firewall policies and IPS policies, is valuable. It has all kinds of functionalities. It has IPS, VPN, and other features. They are doing quite a lot of stuff with their devices."
"I have found the stability of this solution really good. This is why I use it."
"It's very scalable. You can go to different models of the ASAs and they scale up to as big as you want to go."
"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."
"Cisco ASA is very strong."
"Filtering is the best feature."
"The Adversity Malware Protection (AMP) feature is the most valuable. It is also very easy to use. Every technical user can operate this solution without any difficulty. The dashboard of Cisco Firepower has every tool that a security operator needs. You can find every resource that you need to operate through this dashboard."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"It needs more available central management."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"MSSP oriented interface: I would like a single console which would allow me to manage settings creating consistency across all customers."
"In terms of functionality, there isn't much to improve. There could be more bandwidth and better interface speed."
"The stability could be better because we have a lot of issues with the stability of Cisco Firepower."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"I believe that the current feature set of the device is very good and the only thing that Cisco should work on is improving the user experience with the device."
"A major area of improvement would be to have more functionality in public clouds, especially in terms of simplifying it. The high availability doesn't work right now because of the limitations in the cloud."
"I'm working on a slightly older version, but what it needs is a better alert management. It's pretty standard, but there's no real advanced features involved around it."
"ASDM can be improved."
"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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