We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] and Hillstone T-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The security on offer is very good."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Technical support has been good."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"It has been stable so far."
"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."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"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."
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Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox.
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