We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"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."
"Five out of five ROI."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"Palo Alto's App-ID is what differentiates it from other competitors."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"It caters to typical use cases across various technologies. MDR and XDR, for example, focus on user and endpoint protection. It's pretty straightforward."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"This is a very reliable firewall and we have never had problems with it."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"Palo Alto doesn't have extended visibility to the end point in their firewalls."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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