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."The security on offer is very good."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The technical support is great."
"The security is very good."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"One of the valuable features of the solution is its flexibility and it performs great."
"Completely integrates branch offices with perimeter security."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The product's stability is good."
"Cisco Technical Assistance Center works on a follow-the-sun concept and gives real 24x7 customer support, which is a great advantage when you have a service contract with them."
"The technical is excellent."
"Stability is good within the product."
"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."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"The most valuable feature is the central configuration for firewall policies."
"FortiManager's ability to scale is good."
"It can scale well."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"It is easy to deploy to licenses."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"We cannot directly upgrade the system. The tool's deployment is also very difficult in legacy environments. The tool needs to have bigger ports as well."
"With respect to user-friendliness, it is a command-line interface and those with such experience will get along just fine, whereas others may struggle."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"I would like upgrading iOS to be a bit easier."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"The configuration and reporting interfaces need a lot of improvement. It needs to be more accessible forsolide without a strong technical background. If you had a simplified dashboard, the lower-level techs could manage the solution and provide services. Cisco IOS Security requires someone who is highly trained to operate it."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"We faced significant challenges related to licensing issues, particularly when licenses expire."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."
"The FortiManager is more complex and they can make it easier to use the VPN manager. All other features are okay. However, the VPN manager is more difficult and can cause some issues in the environment, if you do not have the experience to use it."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"In the next release, FortiManager should include more protection features."
"The solution has some bugs."
"The interface could be improved. It is split up into different areas, which makes it more difficult to navigate and get the right section of the correct file. The solution is quite expensive, so it would not be suitable for small to medium sized organizations."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 21 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 43 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "It's a reliable solution that will be around for a long time, but the configuration and reporting interfaces need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up, quick response to threats, and collaborates well with other Fortinet products". 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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