We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sonatype Repository Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Cisco ASA NGFW significantly improves our bank. It protects any high-value products that we use from hackers, viruses, malware, and script-bots. It gives us metrics on network traffic as well as what kind of attacks we are getting from the outside."
"Sourcefire has been a great addition. The visibility and control have been nice."
"Netting is one of the best features. We can modify it in different ways. Site-to-site VPN is also an awesome feature of Cisco ASA. The biggest advantage of Cisco products is technical support. They provide the best technical support."
"The greatest benefit that this has provided to our organization is that we've been able to adjust the time that it takes to implement firewall changes. It's gone from a week to less than half a day to implement a change, which means that our DevOps team can be much more agile, and there is much less overhead on the firewall team."
"ASA is stable and with a low level of work required on the maintenance side."
"It is very stable compared to other firewall products."
"The feature that I found most valuable is the overall stability of the product."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Firewall is its ease of configuration and that it's scalable for firewalls and VPNs."
"Another thing that I like about Sonatype is that if you download something today, and five days from today it becomes vulnerable, it will notify you."
"The product's network and intrusion protection features are valuable. It also has rules and compliance features for security."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The Sandbox and the Web Censoring in this solution need to be improved."
"Its configuration through GUI as well as CLI can be improved and made easier."
"Most users do not have awareness of this product's functionality and features. Cisco should do something to make them aware of them. That would be quite excellent and useful to organizations that are still using legacy data-center-security products."
"When we're looking at full-stack visibility, it can be difficult to get the right information out of Firepower."
"We would like to see MS Word BPM as a feature."
"The solution's deployment is time-consuming, which should be minimized and made more user-friendly for us."
"The solution’s GUI could be better."
"The use of it has really bogged down our response time for certain problems, given we have to go through AT&T for everything."
"The tool needs to improve its file systems. The product should also include zero test feature."
"What I don't like is the lack of an option to pick up the phone and call someone for support. That is something they need to improve on. They need to have a professional services package, or they need to include that option with their services."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sonatype Repository Firewall is ranked 31st in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sonatype Repository Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Sonatype Repository Firewall writes "You will get clean code every time, and that's a great achievement". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sonatype Repository Firewall is most compared with JFrog Xray, GitHub, Black Duck, Snyk and Veracode.
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