We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Fortinet FortiPortal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable aspects are the antivirus and URL filtering."
"The product's user interface is very easy to use and convenient."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"My clients have never contacted me with any issues, so I believe the solution is stable."
"Cisco's support and services are far superior to any other security product in Pakistan."
"The most valuable features are the Virtual Private Network and the Electronic Control Lists."
"The platform has significantly enhanced our organization's operations by providing secure communication channels between different office locations."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"The interface is an area that could be improved."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center needs to reduce its price."
"The IOS and the deploy option could be improved."
"The solution could improve the number of ports available and load balancing."
"Cisco Firepower has been effective in solving various problems, but it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly like Fortinet."
"Improving the product by incorporating SD-WAN functionality would be highly beneficial, especially for remote offices with limited server and Internet availability."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's logging functionality could be improved."
"The performance of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could be improved."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews while Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center writes "A stable and reasonably priced product that protects organizations from malware". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Cisco Defense Orchestrator, whereas Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director and CloudStack. See our Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vs. Fortinet FortiPortal report.
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