ShieldX vs Stormshield Network Security comparison

The compared Fortinet and Stormshield solutions aren't in the same category. Fortinet is ranked #11 in MS , and holds a 1.5% mindshare in the category. Stormshield is ranked #12 in UTMU , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Stormshield users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

Stormshield Network Security

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85% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between ShieldX and Stormshield Network Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

ShieldX

Average Rating

9.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsegmentation Software (11th)

Stormshield Network Security

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

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Unified Threat Management (UTM) (12th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Network Security Systems solutions, they serve different purposes. ShieldX is designed for Microsegmentation Software and holds a mindshare of 1.5%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
Stormshield Network Security, on the other hand, focuses on Unified Threat Management (UTM), holds 4.1% mindshare, up 3.6% since last year.

Microsegmentation Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ShieldX	1.5%
Illumio	25.7%
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation	21.9%
Other	50.900000000000006%

Microsegmentation Software

Unified Threat Management (UTM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Stormshield Network Security	4.1%
Fortinet FortiGate	28.6%
Sophos UTM	8.8%
Other	58.5%

Unified Threat Management (UTM)

Featured Reviews

MichaelProcyshyn

IT Director at park holidays uk

Proactively monitors, blocks, and reports what it has blocked; and self-updates meaning there is zero maintenance

The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput. The traffic through our website depends on holiday bookings. It's very quiet in November through January, and then our traffic picks up quite rapidly and, at our peak, we will take in excess of a million pounds of business a day through our website. The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides. Uptime on the system has been 648 days and we do very little to it because it self-updates and alerts. It does everything that we need it to do, so the administration side of it is zero. One of the beauties about ShieldX is that it's such a good "fire-and-forget" product.

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Zsolt Jónás

System Administrator at NaxoNet

Advanced GUI and layered security have supported compliance and simplified intrusion prevention

I haven't had a task that I couldn't solve with Stormshield Network Security. The active-active high availability solution would be beneficial because currently, if you build a high availability solution with Stormshield Network Security, you have a main device and another one is a backup device. The HA can switch between them, but it would be good to have a master-master solution, not just a master-slave one. I could set a URL that I can call to update the DNS record. Currently, Stormshield Network Security devices support DynDNS, which is not a usual feature request from a server environment. I have my own solution instead of DynDNS because I don't prefer it, so I have my own service for that. However, the GUI does not support using a custom service instead of DynDNS. I had to solve it in the console on Stormshield Network Security device, but it would be much better if it was reachable on the GUI. I had to figure out a trick for the IPsec configuration. In the IPsec config, we have to provide the remote side's IP address, but it's always changing. This means that an office, for example a company that has an office but without a fixed IP address, cannot be used with IPsec VPN.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Very often, when new challengers come in, what they do is they end up coming in at a lower cost with more functionality."

"It has helped us tighten our security posture. Now, staff can only access things that they should be accessing."

"For other security professions who are looking for something which is low in cost that does microsegmentation, they should look at ShieldX."

"ShieldX has been designed from the very beginning to work well in cloud environments. It understands autoscaling, automation, and auto-configuration. These are the things which are important in today's operating environment."

"Once you install it you can virtually forget about it; it's very low-maintenance and high-protection."

"The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides."

"We were able to see what devices are talking to each other, giving us more visibility."

"The Adaptive Intention Engine is fantastic. It allows us to develop security policies using the language of our internal customers. It's machine-learning applied to security workflows. That allows us to much more easily construct the policies that will protect those workflows."

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"Fortinet, Dell SonicWall and Check Point because these products offer a wide range of features that are not available with Netasq."

"Customer service is very good, because of their presales support helping me with initial setup I decided to go with NetASQ in the first place, and support after the sale has been equally good as well."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its dashboard, which helps you manage different aspects of a single page."

"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."

"I feel we have more options with the Stormshield firewall and new features that we haven't previously had."

"I like how you can configure the rules. There is the task for the rules and a task for the network configuration. It also provides SMD filtering, and it can be integrated with the active directory for the users, their mission, and the VPN configuration. We are here in Sudan, and Stormshield didn't work in Sudan for more than a decade. Stormshield is a very strong firewall and very easy to configure and maintain. I am just working with the firewall solution, and we don't have any other solutions like endpoint solutions or something like that."

"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."

"Stormshield is a very strong firewall and very easy to configure and maintain."

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Cons

"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up."

"The one criticism I might have is there should be a bit more customer care, with regular review meetings on it or regular reports."

"With any kind of tool like ShieldX, where you're in the cloud instead of a traditional firewall, you're using CPU resources in those environments to provide the protection. So there's a cost associated with CPU resources. I'm pressing upon them to make the product much more efficient and use less CPUs to do the same thing."

"They need to be consistent in performance and capabilities over time, given the fact that this is new and I want to see where this goes in the next year or so. As the vendor continues to evolve and add future functionality, we want to make sure that we are still keeping up with the integrations, etc. Time will be the key factor here. The proper support for some of the latest technologies, Docker containers, etc. They need to keep up with threat landscape, so we will see how the security get layered. This is what we are going to be keeping an eye on."

"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory."

"They need to be consistent in performance and capabilities over time, given the fact that this is new and I want to see where this goes in the next year or so."

"I would like better reports and in-depth reporting."

More ShieldX cons

"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."

"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension."

"This is not a next-generation firewall."

"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."

"Improvement is also needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer, they're not very responsive when it comes to technical support."

"The SD card could be more secure."

"Not all the fields are activated yet and we were informed that it will take at least one month."

"The product must improve its pricing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For a three-year deal we paid £55,000 plus tax... But, and this is a big "but," this was over two years ago. ShieldX had only just hit the market. We were the first company in Europe to buy ShieldX."

"We are very happy with the pricing and licensing. It's about getting a site-wide license. One of the challenges that we've had with our previous vendor had been the cost of licensing."

"ShieldX ensures that we can have the separation needed for our environment to avoid drastically increasing the cost on the licensing side. From this perspective, it's been very positive and helpful."

"Security policies are now applied as applications are going up. Because it's automated, we don't have the three to four week delay. The insertion of applications in the cloud for us dropped from an average of three to four weeks to a couple of days."

"For other security professions who are looking for something which is low in cost that does microsegmentation, they should look at ShieldX. It might not be the big name out there, but it does everything that you are looking for in microsegmentation at a very low price."

"ShieldX also enables us to migrate to cloud environments faster. That is an important part of it for sure because it takes the exact same policies that we would apply to our on-premise environment and enables us to simply apply them to the cloud. It becomes one policy for both on-prem and for the cloud."

"We are actually expecting our costs to drop in the coming year, but it is just a matter of the licensing expiring. That is going to happen in the next six months or so. Then, we will start to see a decrease in overall spend."

"The price of this solution and the price of support are ok."

"The SN200 series costs between $500 USD and $600 USD per year, whereas the SN700 series costs approximately $1,000 annually."

"We bought a three-year license, and we renew it whenever it expires. The price could be better. It's always very expensive."

"I think the price is good."

"For mid-sized companies, they sell their appliances for good prices."

"The pricing could be better."

"We chose Stormshield for its price, as the Azure firewall was too expensive."

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Comms Service Provider

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	2

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Also Known As

APEIRO, ShieldX APEIRO

NETASQ Firewalls

Overview

The ShieldX Elastic Security Platform dynamically scales to deliver comprehensive and consistent controls to protect data centers, cloud infrastructure, applications and data no matter where they are or where they go to make the cloud more secure than on-premise deployments. Our frictionless approach leverages agentless technology as well as the ShieldX Adaptive Intention Engine which autonomously translates and enforces intention into a set of comprehensive controls - microsegmentation, firewall, IPS and more - making security the easiest thing you do in the cloud.

Fortinet

NETASQ's integrated intrusion prevention engine uses protocol conformity analysis, application filtering and antivirus analysis to inspect authorized traffic flows and strengthen application security. NETASQ enables you to establish and configure user-based security policies, giving you greater control over which network resources each user is authorized to access.

Stormshield

Sample Customers

Iowa State University

ACESUR group, Ministry of Education Oman, Anios Laboratories, Zain, DLM Location

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