"Its Snort 3 IPS has better flexibility as far as being able to write rules. This gives me better granularity."
"A good intrusion prevention system and filtering."
"The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"The Firepower+ISE+AMP for endpoint integration is something that really stands it out with other vendor solutions. They have something called pxGrid and i think it is already endorsed by IETF. This allows all devices on the network to communicate."
"One of the most valuable features of Firepower 7.0 is the "live log" type feature called Unified Event Viewer. That view has been really good in helping me get to data faster, decreasing the amount of time it takes to find information, and allowing me to fix problems faster. I've found that to be incredibly valuable because it's a lot easier to get to some points of data now."
"It has been stable so far."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"Is good at blocking IP addresses."
"A free firewall that is a good network security appliance."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"Sophos Intercept X is scalable. Currently, we have almost 30 people using it in our company."
"The solution is very easy to use and configure."
"One of the advantages of pfSense is that it is very easy to work with. It is a very good open-source solution, and it works really well. pfSense provides a complete package. For some features, it could be the first solution in the world. It is a very good alternative in the market for a firewall solution. You don't need to go to Cisco or other brands with expensive firewalls. pfSense also allows us to offer some support services."
"I like pfSense's security features."
"The classic features such as content inspection, content protection, and the application-level firewall, are the most important."
"We're getting support but there's a big delay until we get a response from their technical team. They're in the USA and we're in Africa, so that's the difficulty. When they're in the office, they respond."
"One of the few things that are brought up is that for the overall management, it would be great to have a cloud instance of that. And not only just a cloud instance, but one of the areas that we've looked at is using an HA type of cloud. To have the ability to have a device file within a cloud. If we had an issue with one, the other one would pick up automatically."
"The solution could offer better control that would allow the ability to restrictions certain features from a website."
"Implementations require the use of a console. It would help if the console was embedded."
"FlexConfig is there as a bridge for features that are not yet natively integrated into Firepower. It is a way of allowing you to be able to configure things that wouldn't otherwise be possible until the development team can add them into Firepower's native capability. There is still some work that needs to be done around FlexConfig. There are still quite a few complex things, like policy-based routing, that have to be done in FlexConfig, and it doesn't always work perfectly. Sometimes, there are some glitches. It is recommended that you configure FlexConfig policies with Cisco TAC. It would be good to see Cisco accelerate some of those configurations that you can only do in FlexConfig into the platform, so that they are there natively."
"The initial setup was a bit complex. It wasn't a major challenge, but due to our requirements and network, it was not very straightforward but still easy enough."
"One feature I would like to see, that Firepower doesn't have, is email security. Perhaps in the future, Cisco will integrate Cisco Umbrella with Firepower. I don't see why we should have to pay for two separate products when both could be integrated in one box."
"The performance should be improved."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"In an upcoming release, the reporting could be more user-friendly. For example, the reporting in graphs and charts for the host can be cumbersome."
"I would like to see pfSense integrate WireGuard. Currently, pfSense uses OpenVPN, and there's nothing wrong with it, but WireGuard is a lot leaner and meaner."
"Layer 7 advanced firewall features are not included in the solution."
"It's just not listed as FIPS compliant for where we're at now in government, which is an issue."
"It needs to be more secure."
"The interface is not very shiny and attractive."
"The main problem with pfSense is that it lacks adequate ransomware protection."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
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Hillstone T-Series is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 2 reviews while pfSense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 60 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.0, while pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Customizable reports with advanced threat protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of pfSense writes "Feature-rich, well documented, and there is good support available online". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Hillstone E-Series, Cisco ASA Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sangfor NGAF, whereas pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos UTM, Sophos XG and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our Hillstone T-Series vs. pfSense report.
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