We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sangfor NGAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The customization potential is quite impressive."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The most beneficial aspect of the Cisco Secure Firewall is the AnyConnect component within the firewall package, which we selected specifically for VPN usage due to its exceptional integration with various third-party devices and applications."
"FMC is very good in terms of giving a lot of visibility into what the firewall is seeing, what it's stopping, and what it's letting through. It lets the administrator have a little bit of knowledge of what's coming in or out of the device. It's excellent."
"Its ability to discover attacks is a valuable feature. All of the other features that have to do with security are good."
"We moved from a legacy firewall to the ASA with FirePOWER, increasing our Internet Edge defense dramatically."
"I like them mostly because they don't break and they have great diagnostics."
"The most valuable feature is the Intrusion Prevention System."
"The most valuable features of this solution are advanced malware protection, IPS, and IDS."
"This solution made our organization more secure and gave us better control."
"In terms of the most valuable features, the IPS report is quick and updated. Performance is also valuable."
"The price versus value is good because the solution is less expensive than Sophos, Fortinet, or SonicWall."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"You might try Sangfor if you are on a tight budget. The price is affordable, and Sangfor offers a lot of features. We don't have any complaints about Sangfor."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Other firewalls, upgrading is a very easy task; from the graphical user interface, you just need to import the firmware versions into it and install it. In this firewall, you need to have a third-party solution in both. It's a process. It's a procedure, a hard procedure, actually, so there is no straightforward procedure for upgrading."
"It is hard to collaborate with our filtered environment."
"The solution’s GUI could be better."
"Cisco still has a lot of work to do. You can convert an ASA over to a Firepower, but the competitors, like Palo Alto and Juniper, are coming in. And believe it or not, they are a little bit more intuitive. Cisco has a little bit more work to do. They're playing catch up."
"Cisco is still catching up with its Firepower Next-Generation firewalls."
"I was just trying to learn how this product actually operates and one thing that I see from internal processing is it does fire-walling and then sends it to the IPS model and any other model that needs to be performed. For example, content checking or filtering will be done in a field processing manner. That is something that causes delays in the network, from a security perspective. That is something that can be improved upon. Palo Alto already has implemented this as a pilot passed processing. So they put the same stream of data across multiple modules at the same time and see if it is giving a positive result by using an XR function. So, something similar can be done in the Cisco Firepower. Instead of single processing or in a sequential manner, they can do something similar to pile processing. Internal function that is something that they can improve upon."
"A major area of improvement would be to have more functionality in public clouds, especially in terms of simplifying it. The high availability doesn't work right now because of the limitations in the cloud."
"The software was very buggy, to the point it had to be removed."
"The GUI needs to be improved, lacks logic in some areas."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 30 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS and H3C SecPath Firewalls. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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