We performed a comparison between Cisco Defense Orchestrator and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud 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."For this product, they are very uncharacteristically interested in resolving whatever issue the customer reports. They're really attentive, and they address whatever we bring up as quickly as they can. That's been a very positive aspect of the product."
"When we're looking to the policies, it identifies the shadow rules. It notifies us about anything that will supersede other rules."
"If our server is blocked, this solution shows us why it is blocked and allows us to update the network routing."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the Intrusion prevention."
"The ability to do operations on multiple firewalls at once is valuable because it saves time and mental effort. The solution's ability to make bulk changes makes it very convenient to manage things at once on multiple targets."
"The IPS and firewall function is valuable in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud."
"It's easy to use and the fact that I can schedule the report to come to my inbox at set times is very convenient for me."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the IPS, SSL Wireless, and VPN. Additionally, packet inspection and point-to-point VPN application control are useful."
"FortiGate Cloud boosts productivity because one solution covers all the requirements, features, and management functions. Staff can operate it with less security knowledge, so it decreases the workload of our security specialists. Anyone with training on the console can manage access to users and devices based on standardized structural services."
"This product is easy to manage and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the protection of internal and remote systems."
"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."
"The sandboxing feature is very important."
"If I make a change locally to the firewall, CDO gives an alarm or an error message and says there's a change in compliance: "The firewall has this configuration but the last time it was compiled it had that configuration." That view of new changes versus the old could be better... I had to log in manually, locally on the firewall, to check which version, which configuration was actually running. I couldn't see it in CDO."
"It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily."
"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."
"It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances."
"Cisco Defense Orchestrator can improve by providing more support for third-party security components."
"When logging into the device, we sort of had problems with it staying in sync. If somebody made a change onsite, it wouldn't do an automatic sync. It would have to wait, as you would have to do a manual sync up."
"The dashboard needs to be more customizable to provide better reporting for our network."
"They need to work on the user interface. It needs to be improved to make it more user-friendly."
"Its price should be better."
"ACL is an area with shortcomings that needs to be improved."
"The solution could improve by having a Russian interface."
"The platform's reporting and analysis capabilities need improvement."
"Reporting is an area that can be enhanced."
"It would be much better if Fortinet FortiGate Cloud allowed third-party integrations like multi factor-authentication."
"GUI access could be improved. It should be simpler to access everything from the portal. Once we log in to the portal, we should be able to access all the Fortinet Cloud options."
"The only area that requires improvement is the login reports. We aim to integrate it with our local mobile service provider."
Earn 20 points
Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2. 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 Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with AlgoSec, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Tufin Orchestration Suite, Azure Firewall Manager and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, whereas Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Fortinet FortiPortal.
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