User Reviews of Cisco Secure Firewall & Hillstone T-Series
Updated April 2025
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Cisco Secure Firewall review
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 T-Series review
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Customizable reports with advanced threat protection
The most valuable feature of the T-Series is the reports you can customize and generate. What everybody wants from the firewall at the end of the day are the reports they can share with management or whoever. Hillstone also does what we call "advanced threat detection." Before the threat comes in, you can already detect the threat and...
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