We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"I have integrated it for incidence response. If there is a security event, the Cisco firewall will automatically block the traffic, which is valuable."
"The clusters in data centers are great."
"Cisco offers a great educational series to train users on their devices."
"The configuration capabilities and the integration with other tools are the most valuable features. I really like this product. Cisco is one of my favorite brands, and I always think Cisco solutions are very reliable, easy to configure, and very secure."
"The most valuable feature is that it's secure."
"Cisco has the best documentation. You can easily find multiple documents by searching the web. Even a child can go online and find the required information."
"It's a relatively simple product that is easy to use. It's not overly complex."
"The most valuable features we have found to be the VPN, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"I did like the ability to back up the configuration into the cloud, as opposed to having to store the configurations or just downloading them, the backups, to local devices."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"Its performance is adequate. We are quite satisfied with its performance. The fact that it is a complete ecosystem with all kinds of integrations is valuable. It did take us a couple of months to get a grip on the new software, but all in all, it replaced our on-premise and single-point solution environment."
"The dashboards are a good feature."
"The support is good. We don't have any issues with the technical support."
"Licensing is complex, and I'd like it to be simplified. This is an area for improvement."
"When you make any changes, irrespective of whether they are big or small, Firepower takes too much time. It is very time-consuming. Even for small changes, you have to wait for 60 seconds or maybe more, which is not good. Similarly, when you have many IPS rules and policies, it slows down, and there is an impact on its performance."
"We only have an issue with time sync with Cisco ASA and NTP. If the time is out of sync, it will be a disaster for the failover."
"On the VPN side, Firepower could be better. It needs more monitoring on VPNs. Right now, it's not that good. You can set up a VPN in Firepower, but you can't monitor it."
"The solution could offer better control that would allow the ability to restrictions certain features from a website."
"One of my colleagues is using the firewall as an IPS, but he is worried about Firepower's performance... With the 10 Gb devices, when it gets to 5 Gbps, the CPU usage goes up a lot and he cannot manage the IPS."
"When we first got it, we were doing individual configuring. Now, there is a way to manage from one location."
"It would be good if Cisco made sure that the solution supports all routing protocols. Sometimes it doesn't."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"There should be a bit more automation."
"It needs an Application Inspection."
"There are certain GUI features that should be present but are not."
"We have had some stability issues."
"It should have the SD-WAN feature. This would increase the number of features that are available in the box."
"Areas for improvement would be application control and web filtering."
"The costs could be lowered."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 123 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 50 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "The ability to implement dynamic policies for dynamic environments is important, given the fluidity in the world of security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "Flexible with good cloud management and a straightforward user interface". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, pfSense and Juniper SRX, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, pfSense and OPNsense. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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