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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The Firepower IPS, based on Snort technology, has an amazing detection engine and historical analysis capability of files that eases threat investigations a lot."
"The firewall power that comes with Cisco ASAv is the most valuable asset. They are are very easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the access control list (ACL)."
"I like that it is easy to change the settings."
"We chose Cisco because it had the full package that we were looking for."
"The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is the graphical user interface, works out, and Cisco keeps it current."
"The most valuable feature must be AnyConnect. We have quite a few customers who use it. It is easy to use and the stablest thing that we have. We have experienced some issues on all our VPN clients, but AnyConnect has been the stablest one."
"Unfortunately in Cisco, only the hardware was good."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"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."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The security features in the URL category need more improvement."
"The integration between the on-prem proxy world and the cloud proxy would benefit us. One single policy setting would make sense."
"They really need support for deployment."
"The configuration is an area that needs improvement."
"I wish the Cisco interface was not so granular. Check Point was easier to create specific rules than with ASAv."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"They need a VTI. I know it's going to be available in the next software version, which is the 6.7 version. However, the problem with that is that the 6.7 is going to deprecate all the older IKEv1 deployment tunnels. Therefore, the problem is that we have a lot of customers which are using older encryptions. If I do that, update it, it's not going to work for me."
"For what we use it for, it ends up being the perfect product for us, but it would help if they could expand it into some of the other areas and other use cases working with speeding up and the reliability of the pushes from the policy manager."
"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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