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."Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"We use the product for firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"The product is easy to use."
"The hardware is pretty stable. It's also a very good product performance-wise. Initially, it wasn't mature like a firewall and there were other leaders, but now they have included almost all the features of next-generation security. Basically, it's a good product to work with."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"One of the main features is that the hardware is extremely reliable."
"One of the valuable features of the solution is its flexibility and it performs great."
"Completely integrates branch offices with perimeter security."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"The reports are very basic."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The company needs to make its solution more affordable to make it more accessible to larger markets. Otherwise, it's seen as an enterprise-level solution that small or medium-sized organizations can't afford and therefore they won't even look at it."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see support for the 100BT and 7000 models."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"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."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"I would like to see much more embedded security that works and that isn't a bolt-on."
"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 23rd in Firewalls with 21 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 "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, 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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