We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Even in very big environments, Cisco comes in handy with configuration and offers reliability when it comes to managing multiple items on one platform."
"Netting is one of the best features. We can modify it in different ways. Site-to-site VPN is also an awesome feature of Cisco ASA. The biggest advantage of Cisco products is technical support. They provide the best technical support."
"One of the most valuable features is the AMP. It's very good and very reliable when it comes to malicious activities, websites, and viruses."
"The greatest benefit that this has provided to our organization is that we've been able to adjust the time that it takes to implement firewall changes. It's gone from a week to less than half a day to implement a change, which means that our DevOps team can be much more agile, and there is much less overhead on the firewall team."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The CLI is the most valuable feature. This solution is very flexible and offers different functionality including firewalls and VPN connectivity."
"There are some hiccups here and there, but compared to the technical support from other vendors, I have had the best experience with Cisco's technical support. I would rate them at nine out of ten."
"I like its integration with the AnyConnect client. I also like how modular it is. For example, I can easily integrate the Umbrella add-on into it. We are planning on adding Umbrella. We haven't added it yet, but we have researched."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"I have found the stability of this product to be excellent."
"The installation is straightforward and took approximately 30 minutes."
"The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control."
"The product’s filtering and URL-blocking features are valuable."
"Good VPN connection."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"Content filtering and application rules are the most valuable features. It is also easy to configure."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
"Its interface is sometimes is a little bit slow, and it can be improved. When you need to put your appliance in failover mode, it is a little difficult to do it remotely because you need to turn off the appliance in Cisco mode. In terms of new features, it would be good to have AnyConnect VPN with Firepower. I am not sure if it is available at the moment."
"The GUI interface could be improved when compared to other solutions."
"In the future, I would like to be able to use an IP phone over a VPN connection."
"It should have an additional “operating mode”, like a “candidate configuration mode”, where you would have the possibility to test the changes you are going to implement and also the possibility to validate these changes."
"The stability is not the best."
"Sometimes, it is not easy to troubleshoot. You need to know where to go. It took me quite awhile. It's like, "Okay, if it doesn't go smoothly here, then go find the documentation." Once you do it, it is not so bad. However, it is sometimes a steep learning curve on the troubleshooting part of it."
"Cisco should improve its user interface design. There is a deep learning curve to the product if you are a newcomer."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"We have experienced some issues with SonicWall TZ and they are lacking some advanced features other vendors have."
"I would like the solution to build in more redundancy. I"
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"You need to be a certificate holder to set it up and configure it. It's really important because it looks easy, but it is complex. You need to have the knowledge and experience. But this is normal for technical products. It's not a product for regular user. It's for technical people. You need to have skills."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"The reporting analytics could be improved, it is very unstable."
