User Reviews of Cisco Secure Firewall & Hillstone E-Series

Updated April 2025

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Cisco Secure Firewall review

Dibyendu Roy
Dibyendu Roy
Senior Network Administrator at iib
Delivers strong threat prevention and good VPN but has configuration complexity
Cisco Firewall is not user-friendly. They complicate simple configurations, requiring multiple steps. Compared to Palo Alto and FortiGate, it is not as effective. Cisco Firewalls require FMC for management. If you have a small to medium-sized office with only a few firewalls, you can deploy and manage them without FMC. However, without FMC,...
Hillstone E-Series review

TahirMahmood
TahirMahmood
IT Manager at Zubair Feeds
Offers good features like URL filtering, IPS, and IDS to users
We received an update for the tool in July. The update was provided for the tool as there was a problem with the firewall, where too much memory was consumed, and the firewall was hanging a lot. When we updated the tool's features, everything became okay. The tool only had some memory-related problems. It took the tool a month to fix the...

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