User Reviews of Cisco Secure Firewall & SonicWall NSv

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,...
SonicWall NSv review

Sumesh Panikkar
Sumesh Panikkar
Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer at Khansaheb
Provides effective threat prevention and helps improve security
We face some challenges when we upgrade the solution. If I use NSv 400, I can't upgrade to the next generation. We cannot upgrade the VM to the next generation. We have to rebuild a new VM and copy the configurations. We cannot upgrade straightaway. The solution must allow us to upgrade the same machine to a newer version without many changes.

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