User Reviews of Cisco Secure Firewall & Sophos XGS
Updated April 2025
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Cisco Secure Firewall review
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,...
Sophos XGS review
Nassif Kaleny
IT Manager at Bavaria Egypt S.A.E.
Dynamic web and mail filtering contribute to improved security measures
The reporting system is very poor. I cannot trace any traffic to our site if it feels some threats. It just tells me that there is something during a certain time but does not provide information about the type of threats or how to get rid of them. This needs improvement.
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