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Cisco Secure Firewall vs Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 30, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiGate
Sponsored
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
592
Ranking in other categories
Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (2nd), Firewalls (1st), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (1st), Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions (1st), WAN Edge (1st), ZTNA (1st), Unified Threat Management (UTM) (1st)
Cisco Secure Firewall
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
464
Ranking in other categories
Firewalls (4th), Cisco Security Portfolio (2nd)
Comply Advantage Financial ...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (198th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Firewalls Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cisco Secure Firewall7.5%
Fortinet FortiGate15.1%
OPNsense8.5%
Other68.9%
Firewalls
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence0.2%
Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform0.4%
Freight Emissions API - Carbon data for shipping and logistics0.3%
Other99.1%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

Vasu Gala - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology Operation/Presales at TechMonarch
A stable solution with an intuitive interface and quick customer service
I have been working with Fortinet FortiGate, WatchGuard, Sophos, and SonicWall. I'm not as comfortable with SonicWall because of their UI and limitations. I prefer Fortinet above all other options. When it comes to configuration, I am confident in my ability to handle various tasks, including creating policies such as firewall rules, web policies, and application policies. Additionally, I can configure VPNs and implement load balancing, among other tasks. Overall, I feel much more comfortable working with Fortinet. Fortinet has made significant improvements by integrating AI with firewalls for threat analysis and prevention. In the past 2-3 years, they have launched FortiSASE and SIEM, and they also provide SOC services. Both Palo Alto and Fortinet FortiGate are excellent. While Fortinet FortiGate comes at higher prices, the functionality and support justify the cost. They promptly resolve firmware issues and inform all support providers about configuration changes.
Phil Shiflett - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Network Engineering at TTi Power Equipment
Unified policies streamline network management but complex licensing requires attention
Cisco Secure Firewall has some growth opportunities in terms of visibility and control capabilities regarding managing encrypted traffic. It has the ability to analyze encrypted traffic, and there is potential for more integration with APIs and AI to enhance these capabilities. Cisco Secure Firewall needs improvement in deployment time and the capability to access the CLI during support calls. I often encounter issues when technical support uses a CLI that is not familiar to me while troubleshooting through the GUI. My ongoing complaint for the last six years has been the lack of CLI functionality, which hinders my ability to work on the firewall, alongside concerns regarding deployment time. For the next release, they should look at the features offered by competitors such as Fortinet, including the ability to perform packet capture directly from the interface. If they enhanced their troubleshooting efficiency related to packet capture for each specific rule, it would simplify the process significantly.
reviewer2848860 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Web Technician at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
Risk screening has become faster and has improved accuracy for complex financial crime checks
The best features of Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence help you make decisions easily. It helps you determine how to tag the different cases as low risk, medium risk, or high risk, which is a very advantageous tool to be used in the financial crime scene. I would say the interface is easy to understand. The different sections of Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence give you the opportunity to click on those sections, run automations, and perform other functions. The interface is self-explanatory and enables you, even if you are not an IT personnel, to become proficient with a few training sessions. Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence has helped in offloading the queue and making the queue shorter. The shortening of the queue with Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence is about speeding up onboarding. The rough estimates could probably help speed up queues from hundreds. If you have about 100 cases, you would be able to complete them in about two days or three days maximum.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Fortinet FortiGate is considered the best in the European market for security reasons."
"SD-WAN feature at no cost is a really great feature for remote locations and HQ, making application steering between many ISP links a simple task by dynamically measuring link quality such as latency, jitter, packet loss, and available bandwidth."
"There are around 500 users making use of the solution in our organization."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall's design is good...I am very impressed with the product's stability."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"I'm happy with FortiGate; it's a product I can recommend to others because it doesn't give me any issues."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Our company operates in Saudi Arabia, primarily working with government sectors. If any hardware malfunctions, the defective device is removed, and we receive a replacement from the reseller. We have not encountered any issues related to delays in receiving replacements for malfunctioning devices which has been beneficial."
"The most valuable features of Cisco firewalls are the IPS and IDS items. We find them very helpful. Those are the biggest things because we have some odd, custom-made products in our environment. What we've found through their IPS and IDS is that their vulnerability engines have caught things that are near-Zero-day items, inside of our network."
"Overall, as a result of the solution, our company's security posture is a lot better now."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"It is a comprehensive suite and complete package."
"The stability and reliability of the Cisco Secure Firewall have always been good; it never falls, never fails, and it's always backed up, which is always good too."
"All the rules are secure and we haven't had a significant malware attack in the five years that we've been using ASA Firewall. It has been a tremendous improvement for our network. However, I can't quantify the benefits in monetary terms."
"The best features are stability and scalability."
"The best features of Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence help you make decisions easily."
 

Cons

"They have recently acquired a CNAP solution which should be integrated into FortiGate boxes natively for protection at any application layer. Since Fortinet FortiGate has Layer 7 protection, they should integrate that as soon as they can for threat detection and network detection."
"The dashboard is not user friendly so is a bit complicated."
"The things we require are already sorted out, so there isn't any scope for improvement as far as our requirements go. However, its price can be better."
"There could be more modifications."
"The room for improvement is to have more flexibility on the virtual machines of their next-generation platforms."
"The interface and product support could use improvement."
"FortGate's IPS reporting could be made better by giving more details regarding the source and destination of network traffic when it comes to the overview section. This would allow me to more easily follow the flow of traffic based on IP addresses, without having to integrate the IPS with other products that perform more sophisticated traffic analysis."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included. You have to buy their cloud module that's an add-on for getting more customized reporting."
"On firewall features, Fortinet is better. Cisco needs to become more competitive and add more features or meet Fortinet's offering."
"We suffered an attack and the firewall was down repeatedly."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"I needed to be well-versed with all the command lines for Cisco ASA in order to fully utilize it. I missed this info and wasted some operational costs."
"The cost of keeping the licensing up on the ASA is very expensive. It has a lot of positives, but the cost of going with it is really starting to be a major negative right now."
"I'm working on a slightly older version, but what it needs is a better alert management. It's pretty standard, but there's no real advanced features involved around it."
"I would like to see more integration with third-party devices in general. There is great integration with Cisco devices, but there's not much integration with third-party devices."
"The product we have has some limitations when it comes to scalability."
"The accuracy of Comply Advantage Financial Crime Risk Intelligence can always be worked on."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product pricing is reasonable."
"The license is yearly. We pay for the top end. It's called 360."
"There is only a standard license cost to use the solution."
"The solution is very expensive so pricing is rated a one out of ten."
"Fortinet FortiGate gives you most of the features in one license."
"The price of the license and warranty can be better because it is very expensive."
"The product is expensive compared to one of its competitors."
"The licensing cost is at the intermediate level."
"The ROI is good. Using ASA, we have saved 10% to 20% on our costs."
"The cost is a bit higher than other competitive solutions on the market."
"We pay about $200 yearly and we have two firewalls."
"I rate the product's price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap."
"There are licensing costs."
"The price of Firepower is not bad compared to other products."
"It definitely competes with the other vendors in the market."
"Licensing is not only for Secure Firewalls, and it's too complicated."
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Comparison Review

it_user206346 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at Webernetz.net - Network Security Consulting
Mar 11, 2015
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
44%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business370
Midsize Enterprise138
Large Enterprise195
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business192
Midsize Enterprise130
Large Enterprise236
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Also Known As

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall, Cisco ASA NGFW, Adaptive Security Appliance, Cisco Sourcefire Firewalls, Cisco ASAv, Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Virtual - BYOL
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Sample Customers

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Dell, HP, Oracle, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Vodafone, Orange, BT Group, Telstra, Deutsche Telekom, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, NTT Communications, Tata Communications, SoftBank, China Mobile, Singtel, Telus, Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Telkom Indonesia, Telkom South Africa, Telmex, Telia Company, Telkom Kenya
There are more than one million Adaptive Security Appliances deployed globally. Top customers include First American Financial Corp., Genzyme, Frankfurt Airport, Hansgrohe SE, Rio Olympics, The French Laundry, Rackspace, and City of Tomorrow.
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