It's hard to pinpoint a single feature as the most crucial for threat detection because threats can penetrate the network in various ways. However, securing email is vital as it's often the primary vector for threats globally. 

Therefore, monitoring what the user accesses and applying necessary restrictions is paramount for maintaining security.

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The product is quite mature. Cisco is well known within the industry.

The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is extremely integrated. The product basically comes with the firewall features including IPS, URL filtering, malware, et cetera. The integrated features are great.

The functionalities of the product are pretty good.

Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust.

The solution offers a good mix of features. You can always add more modules as you need to if you need even more features.

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The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network.

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In Pakistan, we only use Cisco because they have good local support infrastructure. Huawei and Fortinet don't offer direct support in Pakistan.

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The stability is fine. The technical support is good.

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There is a positive impact on security, particularly the intrusion feature, which helps keep the solution concealed and secure. It's a valuable aspect of the solution that we find favorable, and it enhances overall security across the board.

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The product's stability is good.

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Cisco IOS Security is very robust and works very well. Once set up and operational, very limited human interaction is required with the device to run it for years. We deployed the solution, activated certain features, and forgot about it. We didn't have the necessary tools to monitor and maintain the solution actively.

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The solution is easy to use. It provides hotkeys that help you remember commands you've forgotten about.

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The VPN was valuable for us because more people are working from home. It has a lot of reporting and easy-to-use management tools.

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Compared to other products I've used, it offers greater stability and performance, along with a wider range of features. Plus, the VPN connection portal scan works flawlessly, which was a big plus for us.

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The solution has the best features for routers embedded with firewall capabilities. It helps us protect the network.

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Cisco IOS Security increases the overall security of our network, performs authentication, and provides level 15 access and privileges.

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The product has valuable features for business intelligence. It enables intrusion detection for the network.

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The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella which has an intelligent background and is very helpful in tech analysis or discovery. 

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The most valuable feature is endpoint protection.

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We don't have a problem with the user interface and it is pretty user-friendly.

We don't mind the cost.

The security is very good. 

Cisco is very good, very powerful. 

It's a reliable, stable product in general. It's better than the competition. 

The product is easy to set up. 

It is a stable product.

We find the product to be scalable. 

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I think the multi-layered approach is valuable. Just the fact that it covers everything on the LSA (Local Security Authority) right up to layer 7, in-depth packet analysis, and all that. It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions.  

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I would say that the most valuable thing is probably the Application Visibility and Control which is how it controls the application traffic on the network. I like the IPS (Intrusion Prevention System), the IOS content filtering, and the NAT network translation. I like the way it completely integrates branch offices in our perimeter security.  

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We interpret the additional protection to be very important now. Cisco IOS Security is used with client mobile devices on the firewall.

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The most valuable feature of Cisco IOS Security is posturing.

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The feature I find most valuable is that the solution doesn't really change from year to year. The basics are there and I have so much experience with it that it's easy to use. I also like the security this solution offers.

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It is less expensive than alternative firewalls.

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Cisco IOS Security has many good features, but compared to other solutions, it has a more user-friendly interface with steps to apply and manage rules. Another good part of the solution is that it's more straightforward.

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Cisco products are very secure and integrate easily with other devices.

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The most valuable feature is the support that we get.

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The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale.

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We can access control lists and VPN tunneling.

It gives us better efficiency.

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EEM (Embedded Event Manager) is a software component of Cisco IOS.

I found that EEM is a handy feature [but it is an underdog for the end user] if fine tuning of monitoring is required or if you would like to turn a Cisco device (switch or router) into a programmable device (without fancy words like ACI or Python, etc.). It is low level but efficient and money saving. It is available by default (but check the IOS feature support first). For curious minds, it could be used in combination with IP SLA and tracking features, a network engineer Swiss army knife.

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The hardware is pretty stable. It's also a very good product performance-wise. 

Initially, it wasn't mature like a firewall and there were other leaders, but now they have included almost all the features of next-generation security. Basically, it's a good product to work with. 

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What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology. It overlays on DMVPN tunnels and being able to secure these object-based tunnels is good because they perform significantly better than traditional IPsec tunnels.

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The compatibility is high with many open protocols. We use it for Radiant. We use it for any kind of network access protocols as well. 

The solution is very user-friendly and easy to deal with. We find working with both the Command-Line and the Viewer very, very straightforward.

It's quite stable. We find it more stable than other options.

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The most valuable features of Cisco IOS Security are the plenty of functionality it provides, many people are IT certified the usage, and the user interface is good.

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One of the main features is that the hardware is extremely reliable.

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I've found their network routing to be very good.

It is also stable, has good scalability and is easy to use. 

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The best features include the Auto Secure script, port security, spanning-tree root and loop guard, 802.1x, DMVPN, GET VPN, SD-Access, and Secure SD-WAN.

The software offers plenty of security solutions that can work in the most sophisticated enterprise but also works well for small/mid-range enterprises.

A simple switch is able to run basic security as port security, limiting the MAC addresses allowed on a port, or by running a script you can set up ACL and some control plane policies to protect control and management planes and basic DoS protection.

The same software is able to work with sophisticated security options going from the basic 802.1x to MACSEC, NAC, and trustsec, and can be integrated with automation tools in order to do auto onboarding tasks (for wired devices), profiling, and more interesting security tasks.

It allows for easy traditional ISAKMP V1 or V2 VPN setups and has a very mature proprietary VPN flavor called DMVPN. DMVPN allows on-demand VPN establishment with minimal setup configuration involved and creates a pseudo full mesh (avoiding bottlenecks as a hub-spoke topology does). Dynamic VPN establishment allows spoke-to-spoke traffic flow on-demand, optimizing VoIP/SIP calls setting up direct tunnels among spokes, reducing latency compared with a hub/spoke topology.

Switch and router iOS can be automated and orchestrated with secure SD-WAN and SD-Access Cisco solutions. Having the iOS software is relevant for small and large enterprises; it works fine for all size networks.

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The VPN is the most valuable feature. 

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One of the valuable features of the solution is its flexibility and it performs great.

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The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature. 

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The GRE kernels and IPSEC security are the most valuable features.

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Overall, the devices are very good and reliable.

The product is easy to use.

It's quite a stable solution.

The installation process is easy.

Technical support has always been very good.

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1. Cisco IOS Security feature provides key features such as AAA, VPN, IPsec, content filtering, IPS, etc in all IOS based Cisco devices. 2. I like it because they include powerful security features that come with all Cisco Router and Switch from low to higher end. 3. It helped me to convert my Cisco router into a zone-based policy firewall. 4. It helped me to implement port security at my switch end. 5. I have implemented AAA in all Cisco routers and switch easily. 6. I have configured VPN server in a Cisco router with ease compare to OPENVPN configuration in a Linux OS environment. View full review »

Defending the business processes.

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Cisco IOS is the best OS for Cisco routers and switches. There are a lot of plus points of using Cisco IOS. A brief introduction about them are as follows.AAA- Cisco IOS has a lot advantages while using AAA. It can use various encryption services which also includes EAP with Radius.Firewall- You can use Cisco IOS Advance IP Services for creating Zone based firewalls on Cisco Routers.TCP Intercept- It prevents DDOS attacks quite effectively.PKI- You can use RSA keys in PKI. Also lets you use Certificates in PKI.VPN- Almost any type of VPN can be configured using IOS security. Site to site or remote. 802.1X- This facility has helped a lot of organizations and ISPs to maintain authentication for their users. View full review »