We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Hillstone T-Series 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 command line is the same as it is on the Cisco iOS router."
"I like the ASDM for the firewall because it is visual. With the command line, it is harder to visualize what is going on. A picture is worth a thousand words."
"The content filtering is good."
"One of the nice things about Firepower is that you can set it to discover the environment. If that is happening, then Firepower is learning about every device, software operating system, and application running inside or across your environment. Then, you can leverage the discovery intelligence to get Firepower to select the most appropriate intrusion prevention rules to use for your environment rather than picking one of the base policies that might have 50,000 IPS rules in it, which can put a lot of overhead on your firewall. If you choose the recommendations, as long as you update them regularly, you might be able to get your rule set down to only 1,000 or 1,500, which is a significant reduction in a base rule set. This means that the firewall will give you better performance because there are less rules being checked unnecessarily. That is really useful."
"It has a good security level. It is a next-generation firewall. It can protect from different types of attacks. We have enabled IPS and IDS."
"The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is the graphical user interface, works out, and Cisco keeps it current."
"So far, it has been very stable."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"The solution has been quite stable."
"Any kind of cloud environment anywhere can be protected through this effortlessly."
"The solution is reliable."
"The most valuable features are the VPN Blade, IPS Blade, the URL filtering, and the Applications Control Blade."
"It really is a pretty complete solution."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The scalability is very good; again, very user-friendly. I wouldn't even say "user-friendly" because, as long as you deploy it properly, you can kill an EC2 and it will spin up another one right away, within about a minute and a half. And it will be ready for production right away."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"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."
"I would like to see them add more next-generation features so that you don't need a lot of appliances to do just one task. It should be a single solution."
"Comparing Cisco solution to others, it is expensive, it would be better for it to be cheaper."
"When we first got it, we were doing individual configuring. Now, there is a way to manage from one location."
"Implementations require the use of a console. It would help if the console was embedded."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"An area for improvement is the graphical user interface. That is something that is coming up now. They could make the product more user-friendly. A better GUI is something that would make life much easier."
"Cisco ASA is starting to get old and Firepower is taking over. All the good things happening are with Firepower."
"The ease of use needs improvement. It is complex to operate the solution. The user interface is not friendly."
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"Lacks the ability to integrate with other security solutions."
"Check Point Virtual Systems is a complete solution, but pricing can be better."
"I would like to see a step-by-step initial installation of the firewall. That would be really helpful. Like in Oracle appliances, when you start it asks you, what's your current IP address? An initial setup should be a step by step and intuitive process. You click on "begin," it asks you some simple questions. You fill in the blanks - your current IP address, what you want to do, you want to set up a site to site VPN, for example, that kind of thing. That would be the smartest thing to have."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"Easier optimization techniques can definitely help with better performance of the OS, as using the vanilla software doesn't actually showcase the real capability of the software."
"Its architecture and user interface need improvement. The user experience for this solution also needs to be improved, particularly in implementation, management, and operations."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 34 reviews while Hillstone T-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 2 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.4, while Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "You can have everything under a single pane of glass". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Customizable reports with advanced threat protection". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Hillstone E-Series, Juniper SRX and Sophos UTM. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Hillstone T-Series report.
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