We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is quite easy to handle."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The GUI is good."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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