We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"A powerful enterprise security solution that is dependible."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"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."
"If you compare the ASA and the FirePOWER, the best feature with FirePOWER is easy to use GUI. It has most of the same functionality in the Next-Generation FirePOWER, such as IPS, IPS policies, security intelligence, and integration and identification of all the devices or hardware you have in your network. Additionally, this solution is user-friendly."
"We feel that we can trust the security, and our assets and business are well protected. We need to have trust in it, but we also see that it works. We have a security company that has tested that it works."
"We have been using a 5520 for seven years in our datacenter and we are satisfied by this version."
"One of the most valuable features of Firepower 7.0 is the "live log" type feature called Unified Event Viewer. That view has been really good in helping me get to data faster, decreasing the amount of time it takes to find information, and allowing me to fix problems faster. I've found that to be incredibly valuable because it's a lot easier to get to some points of data now."
"It's easy to integrate ASA with other Cisco security products. When you understand the technology, it's not a big deal. It's very simple."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The support system could be improved."
"Application management can be improved."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"The process of procuring modern-day technology within the DOD needs to improve."
"There used to be information displayed about the packets in a module called Packet Flow, but it is no longer there."
"If I need to download AnyConnect in a rush, it will prompt me for my Cisco login account. Nobody wants to download a client to a firewall that they don't own."
"You have to know the ASA command line very well because not all operations are available in the graphical interface"
"I would like to see the inclusion of a protocol that can be used to protect databases."
"The GUI interface could be improved when compared to other solutions."
"Bandwidth allocation needs improvement."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX.
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