We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and OPNsense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Five out of five ROI."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. The technical support team are very good and very quick."
"The solution has high availability."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"The IDS and IPS features are valuable. From the usability perspective, there is a lot of good documentation. As IT professionals, we found it very easy to configure the firewall. It was easy to configure and use."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"I would like better documentation concerning the provided packages and their integration."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"The reporting part could be better."
"There are some add-ons that need enhancements to make management easier for users, especially the reporting features. Some reports don't show the level of detail I'm looking for, and I've had trouble installing certain add-ons, especially for Internet bandwidth shaping within my company."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"The scalability needs improvement."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. OPNsense report.
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