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Hillstone’s T-Series intelligent Next-Generation Firewall (iNGFW) uses three key technologies to detect advanced attacks and provide continuous threat defense for today’s networks. First, it uses statistical clustering to detect unknown malware, leveraging the patented Hillstone Advanced Threat Detection engine (ATD). Second, it uses behavioral analytics to detect anomalous network behavior, which is based on the Hillstone Abnormal Behavior Detection engine (ABD). Finally, it leverages the Hillstone threat correlation analysis engine to correlate threat events detected by disparate engines – including ATD, ABD, Sandbox and other traditional signature-based threat detection technologies – along with context information to identify advanced threats.
Hillstone T-Series was previously known as Hillstone T-Series Intelligent Next-Generation Firewalls, Hillstone iNGFW.
University of Córdoba
"We got a much cheaper price than that provided by Fortinet right now."
I think Hillstone is probably the only firewall that's able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. A lot of properties today are protected by CCTV cameras, so most of them are IP based. They plug them into to the switch and for most of these cameras, they receive and send data images back to the CCTV network. Normally, a firewall can't detect these kinds of networks because it's blinded by that section.
Hillstone supports IOT setup and detecting intrusions from IOT or CCTV connectivity. Not all other standard firewalls can do that. With this solution, we can also detect unauthorized devices plugged into the CCTV network and sound the alarm to the administrator.
The most valuable feature of the T-Series is the reports you can customize and generate. What everybody wants from the firewall at the end of the day are the reports they can share with management or whoever.
Hillstone also does what we call "advanced threat detection." Before the threat comes in, you can already detect the threat and they're able to mitigate the threat before it actually comes to the network.
Whatever improvements I wanted, they put on the A-Series. The new A-Series recently launched a few months ago. It has all the bells and whistles, so I can't complain anymore.
I've been using it for two and a half years.
Licensing is not cheap, but there are customers who will buy because they understand that this has a cost involved and they will cater their budget for that.
Prices per year vary depending on the model, but normally, the basic one costs about 200 or 300 bucks. It's not that expensive, it's very affordable.
I would give this solution a nine out of ten because it's very reliable software. It gets done and I haven't heard any complaints yet from any users.
