We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Sangfor NGAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The product offers very good security."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The technical is excellent."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to deal with."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product is easy to use."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"The most valuable features of Cisco IOS Security are the plenty of functionality it provides, many people are IT certified the usage, and the user interface is good."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"Technical support is very good."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"While the features are not dissimilar to other brands, configuration is much more simple, which works out great for Indonesian people."
"Sangfor has the best capabilities for securing connections, securing web browsers, securing servers, and general threat protection."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware."
"In terms of the most valuable features, the IPS report is quick and updated. Performance is also valuable."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"I would like upgrading iOS to be a bit easier."
"Signatures and other critical definitions need to be updated more frequently."
"There are the usual bugs that are inherent to some software upgrades. Sometimes this provides some unexpected issues, however, it happens with all brands all the time."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"There could be a bit more functions on offer that could make it easier to use."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"An area of improvement for Sangfor NGAF could be in the field of reporting and logging."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"The tool is expensive."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Sangfor NGAF 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 Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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