We performed a comparison between Cisco Defense Orchestrator and FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."This product provides excellent centralized device controls and reporting."
"There are a lot of templates that are already built-in. They give you quick-to-create and quick-to-apply policies that are typically a little more complicated for people."
"I like the upgrade feature. That is pretty valuable to me because I have dual ASAs and when I go through CDO it does it for me pretty well. It's all done in the back-end and I don't really have to be involved. I just initiate, pick the image, and I pick when I want it done and it just does it, whether I have a single ASA or have a dual ASA."
"We have quite a few Active Stone by pairs. If they fail over... I'll see that there's a change on it and I'll have a look. The only change on it is that now this one is the standby, it took over the active role. I can go into that firewall and find out what happened... and troubleshoot based on that. That's pretty cool too."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We spun up the VM onsite. We generated the key that it needed to talk to the Cloud Orchestrator. After that, as I started adding devices, it was relatively quick and easy."
"Cisco Defense Orchestrator has useful guides for the steps that need to follow by users."
"We use a lot of image upgrades. We take some 20 devices and then we update everything at once, including the policies. We apply policies for groups. For certain groups, like anti-viruses, we send out policies and apply them to every single device. It's really easy and simple."
"With Cisco Defense Orchestrator, we can manage the complete Cisco Security solution. It provides a simple and centralized way to manage all products."
"Unlike other products, the FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall has many features under one appliance."
"The tool's documentation and online resources availability have been valuable."
"ATP ( Advanced Threat Protection) next-generation firewall is the most valuable feature."
"The solution can scale well."
"The focus is on the comprehensive coverage of threats and the reliability of the chosen solution. Ease of use and familiarity are crucial."
"The solution is very advanced and has good monitoring features."
"The platform has good stability."
"It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances."
"It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily."
"There could be some slight improvements to navigation. In some of the navigation you've got to go back to be able to get into where you need to be once you've made a change. If I make a change, I've then got to go back to submit and send the change."
"They can centralize all products and provide a correlation about an incident and the response. They can also provide an on-premises solution. Currently, Cisco Defense Orchestrator is just for cloud deployments, not for on-premises deployments. Customers have to manage it on the cloud. We are based in Vietnam, and most of the customers here prefer to have on-premises deployments. Customers, especially from banking and government sectors, do not prefer to do anything on the cloud. Some of the small enterprises use the cloud."
"We had some MX devices that were blocking Windows Update from happening. We found out it was a Meraki issue, but it would have been nice if it had been flagged for us: "Hey, these updates are failing because the MX is blocking it." It wasn't a huge problem, but there was a loss of our time as well as the fact that the updates didn't get pushed out... It would have been nice if CDO had let us know that that was an issue."
"I've found dozens of bugs over the year we've been using it. The more I use it for different things, the more problems I find... Most of the problems have to do with the user interface. A lot of thought and work has gone into the back-end component to make the product do what it's intended to do, but the way it is presented for use hasn't gotten nearly as much thought to make it smart and bug-free."
"They need to work on the user interface. It needs to be improved to make it more user-friendly."
"CDO doesn't have a report, an official report that I can check daily. It has another module called FTD, but it doesn't have that specifically for ASA. In the reporting, there are a lot of things that aren't there. There is also room for improvement in the daily monitoring."
"There could be more detailed descriptions regarding version upgrades, particularly in terms of the upgrade process."
"I'd like them to add a DNS option for FortiGate."
"The solution needs to improve on box clustering and IPS configuration."
"They should offer more affordable renewal options or flexible plans for license upgrades."
"There is room for improvement in terms of support."
"The solution is not stable in terms of switching."
"The product is very expensive."
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Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management while FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) is ranked 9th in Firewall Security Management with 7 reviews. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is rated 8.2, while FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Defense Orchestrator writes "Provides visibility into entire infrastructure and bulk changes save time and resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) writes "A reliable and affordable solution that can be used for firewall, IPS, IDS, UTM, routing, and VPNs". Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, Azure Firewall Manager and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, whereas FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Azure Firewall Manager.
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