We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the Global Management System."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"Overall SonicWall NSa is a good solution for our use case."
"Valuable features include a web filter, DHCP, and monitoring capabilities."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"SonicWall NSA is easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to configure."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"We like the features, but the main thing is from a commercial and cost perspective it is very good."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"It would help us a lot of SonicWall sent us more information about the latest updates and things that are changing."
"One issue with the solution is that no authorization or authentication features exist."
"Competitors provide SSL encryption licenses for free, whereas SonicWall only provides two licenses by default, but you have to pay for the rest of the licenses."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"SonicWall NSa doesn't have a proxy. It also needs a quota management feature in specific scenarios where you must limit user bandwidth for a particular day."
"The filter settings are confusing and overly complicated. The user interface can be improved."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense.
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