Hillstone E-Series Reviews

I use the solution in my company for site-to-site VPN, SSL VPNs, URL filtering, IPS, IDS and all the other features which are available in the firewall.

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ransomware protection that the tool offers.

Speaking about the use cases of Hillstone E-Series, I would like to say that the firewall's security is too strong. We use IPS and an antivirus subscription in the same firewall, making it very comfortable and easy to use and manage the policies.

Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement.

Our company would recommend that it would be good if Hillstone could dedicate an area-wise support team for the firewall provided by Hillstone. Hillstone can give a single email address to its customers for raising tickets and make it an easier process to manage. In the current scenario, while considering the global level, when an email drops in, Hillstone assigns an engineer, which takes time.

It should be easier to manage the ticketing process of the support team.

I would want Hillstone E-Series to have a built-in switching capacity similar to Fortinet.

The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take. It is a user-friendly and marketable solution.

One good thing about Hillstone E-Series is that you don't have to have a switching capability or get third-party switches or routers. The solution has a virtual switching and a virtual router with that capability. So if you're using a passive switch and have a router from the ISP, you can have a direct internet connection using the firewall virtual feature and router without implementing the hardware.

I've been looking for live webinars from the website. Unfortunately, I could find only the ones that are already being done. Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help.

I am impressed with the application filtering feature. 

The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature. 

We use the product to provide prevention against gateway-level attacks for our customers.

This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. 

We primarily use the solution as a firewall to protect the local network.

The solution, in general, is great. There isn't one feature that stands out; holistically it's a very good solution.

We deploy the firewalls here in schools, in universities, in energy companies, so they like it very much.

They have their own call processor 64-bit. With the call processor, they're able to perform according to the load of the data volume that goes through these firewalls. 

I have been using Hillstone E-Series within the past 12 months.

We have been satisfied with the technical support for small and medium scale clients but we have not seen the support quality for the needs of enterprise organizations.