We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"It performs very well."
"Completely integrates branch offices with perimeter security."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"Cisco IOS Security increases the overall security of our network, performs authentication, and provides level 15 access and privileges."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiManager is the ability to control all the devices from a central location, view their statuses, and manage their configurations and updates from a single management console."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"It is easy to deploy to licenses."
"It makes management very easy."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"Fortinet has the option of synchronization in the cloud, so you can manage everything if you have a cloud account."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The reports are very basic."
"The graphical user interface or the GUI could be better. Beginners can use some devices with the GUI, but some security devices are configured using CLI. It would also be better if it had its own Intrusion Protection Service and Intrusion Detection Service on the server."
"There's a technology called SD-WAN that we would like to see. We are unable to handle multiple connections or to automatically load balance. I would like to have a feature that enables us to automatically prepare for load balancing."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"The routers, don't have like long-term tendency features, or higher availability features available for the IOS. It could also use a better user interface."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see support for the 100BT and 7000 models."
"I would like to see much more embedded security that works and that isn't a bolt-on."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"Having FortiManager work with all of the Fortinet products would be a good improvement."
"The reporting details have room for improvement."
"The GUI could be updated. It's not as good as it could be and is something the solution should improve in an upcoming release."
"The GUI is not ideal."
"The presence of Fortinet in our region (Nigeria) needs to be stronger."
"Fortinet FortiManager could improve them by adding more portfolio components."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 59 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec.
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