We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The performance and functionality are good."
"I can manage it easily by myself."
"Is good at blocking IP addresses."
"Open source and support are valuable. I have community support."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall."
"Great extensibility of the platform."
"I use pfSense because it gives me the flexibility to greatly expand basic firewall features."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"Adjustment in the interfaces: I had to adjust those interfaces manually and of course that is a great feature that you can restore it but it is immediately also one point for improvement. If you don't have to adjust, if it's just stamped and it works, that's great."
"As an open-source solution, there are so many loopholes happening within the product. By design, no one is taking ownership of it, and that is worrisome to me."
"I would like to see different graphs available in the reporting."
"The router monitoring needs improvement when compared with Sonicwall."
"A way to clean squid cache from the GUI."
"pfSense is not user-friendly. I hope to have something to make the interfaces more user-friendly."
"The product could offer more integrated plugins."
"It would be great to add more to security."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Netgate pfSense 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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