We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Palo Alto Networks VM-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."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."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The GUI is good."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"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."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"We have reduced the number of configuration lines by 90%. We need fewer number of admins right now because of it."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". 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 VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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