User Reviews of Cisco Secure Firewall & Fortinet FortiGate-VM

Updated April 2025

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Cisco Secure Firewall review

Dibyendu Roy
Dibyendu Roy
Senior Network Administrator at iib
Delivers strong threat prevention and good VPN but has configuration complexity
Cisco Firewall is not user-friendly. They complicate simple configurations, requiring multiple steps. Compared to Palo Alto and FortiGate, it is not as effective. Cisco Firewalls require FMC for management. If you have a small to medium-sized office with only a few firewalls, you can deploy and manage them without FMC. However, without FMC,...
Fortinet FortiGate-VM review

RajeshKumar20
RajeshKumar20
Senior Engineer at Team Computers
An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help...
In SonicWall, there is no need to buy two boxes for HA. SonicWall will work fine if you buy one box with the fully licensed set and get another box without a license. When it comes to Palo Alto Networks or Fortinet FortiGate-VM, people have to buy the same type of boxes with the same features to ensure that they get HA. The need to buy the...

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