We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and Netgate pfSense 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."The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"I have found the firewall portion for the blocking most valuable."
"We can run it on any hardware."
"The concurrent users are perfect for us."
"Its reliability and cost-effectiveness stand out."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"The GUI is easy to understand."
"Application management can be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"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."
"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."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"User interface is a little clumsy."
"It needs better parsing of logs. At the moment, you have to use an external server for this if you want a deeper analysis."
"Lacks instructional videos."
"More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome."
"I would like to see different graphs available in the reporting."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"Network monitoring and device inventory could use some improvements. I'm using SpiceWorks for this because it never really worked in pfSense."
"The integration should be improved."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while Netgate pfSense 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OpenVPN Access Server, Sophos XG, A10 Networks Thunder CFW and Sangfor SSL VPN, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, Cisco Secure Firewall and KerioControl. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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