We performed a comparison between Hillstone E-Series and SonicWall NSa 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 security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"It is very flexible to use."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"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."
"I am impressed with the application filtering feature."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"Five out of five ROI."
"SonicWall NSa has a user-friendly firmware"
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"We use SonicWall NSa for authenticating MAC (media access control) ID from the PC."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"The DPI-SSL is the solution's most valuable aspect. It's handy."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"The filtering is excellent."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"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."
"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."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"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."
"When it comes to security I think all of the features are currently open to improvement."
"The anti-spam requires a specific Java version on the server side (do not update it, otherwise it will break)."
"Having to deal with too many lower-level people in technical support means that it takes longer to resolve issues, so escalating support tickets should be faster."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"We have used other solutions such as pfSense and Linux native firewalls. I prefer SonicWall NSa but if you are going to use something for an enterprise you need another solution."
"The cost could be lower. There could also be more flexibility for smaller companies."
Hillstone E-Series is ranked 33rd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server, Netgate pfSense and Meraki MX, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Hillstone E-Series vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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