We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."I like them mostly because they don't break and they have great diagnostics."
"The benefits we see from the ASA are connected to teleworking as well as, of course, having the basic functionality of a firewall in place and the prevention of attacks."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"The return on investment is not going to be restricted to just the box... Now, these genres have been expanded to cyber, to third-party integrations, having integrated logging, having integrated micro and macro segmentations. The scope has been widened, so the ROI, eventually, has multiplied."
"The most valuable feature that Cisco Firepower NGFW provides for us is the Intrusion policy."
"The information coming from Talos does a good job... I like the fact that Cisco is working with them and getting the information from them and updating the firewall."
"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."
"REST API offering with rich capabilities which makes the product very robust."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The product has all the latest features."
"Sophos XG's price is right, and it's easy to manage. It's a good fit for our current needs at the moment."
"Using Sophos endpoint and the firewall, synchronized security is easy."
"The firewall feature of Sophos XG has been the most effective for threat prevention."
"Technical support is responsive."
"Excellent product, meets most of the security needs of companies of various sizes. You can buy it without fear."
"It is easy to implement."
"We get good usage out of the features. It has enabled us to gain popularity. It has great features."
"I would like to see more configurable feature parity with Cisco ASA, which is the legacy product that Cisco is moving away from. When configuring remote access VPN, not all of the options are there. You have to download another tool, which means that the configuration takes a little bit longer with Cisco Secure Firewall. Though it's getting there, there are still some features lagging behind."
"Comparing Cisco solution to others, it is expensive, it would be better for it to be cheaper."
"There was an error in the configuration, related to our uplink switches, that caused us to contact technical support, and it took a very long time to resolve the issue."
"I have worked with the new FTD models and they have more features than the ASA line."
"Sometimes my customers say that Cisco Firewalls are a bit more difficult compared to Fortigate or Palo Alto. There is complexity in the configuration and the GUI could be improved."
"Cisco wasn't first-to-market with NGFWs... they should look at what other vendors are doing and try not only to be on the same wavelength but a little bit better."
"The stability and the product features have to really be worked on."
"They should work on making it a little more intuitive for users and not quite as complex. Still, it's a good product."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Some of the firewall rules are complicated for us to understand, they should be simplified."
"I'm just a sole proprietor for IT support, and from my perspective, there could be better ways to educate a proprietor, such as myself, on how to set it up, and program it, and manage it. They do tend to have support, but a lot of times, it is for larger networks. I need something that is simpler and more rudimentary as to how to go about setting up and configuring the firewall, setting up the rules, and that type of thing. So, if there is a missing component there, that would be it."
"I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required."
"Sophos XG could improve by making the remote access and VPN better."
"Lacking network access control, user profiling and analytics dashboards."
"There have been some issues when upgrading. For some reason, parts of the configuration become unconfigured, I then have to reconfigure it. I should not need to keep reconfiguring it after upgrades."
"Sophos XG could improve by being more stable and for it to be able to be used for large enterprises."
"The support from the vendor needs to be improved."