We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"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."
"The VPN connection portal scan works flawlessly, which was a big plus for us."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"We faced significant challenges related to licensing issues, particularly when licenses expire."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"Cisco is an expensive firewall, so the pricing can be improved."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"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."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ.
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