We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet, Cisco, Netgate and others in Firewalls."The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"The management aspect of the product is very straightforward."
"The main thing that I love the most is its policy and objects. Whenever I try to give access to a user, I can create an object via group creation in the object fields. This way, I am not able to enter a user in the policy repeatedly."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the access control and IPsec VPN."
"We find all of its features very useful. Its main features are policies and access lists. We use both of them, and we also use routing."
"The features I've found most valuable are the packet captures and packet traces because they help me debug connections. I like the logs because they help me see what's going on."
"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."
"The high-availability and remote VPN features are most valuable."
"The solution can scale well."
"It can be improved when it comes to monitoring. Today, the logs from the firewalls could be improved a bit more without integrating with other devices."
"The only drawback of the user interface is when it comes to policies. When you open it and click on the policies, you have to move manually left and right if you want to see the whole field within the cell. Checkpoint has a very detailed user interface."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"The initial setup could be simplified, as it can be complex for new users."
"This solution could be more granular and user-friendly."
"There are some limitations with SSL. Regarding the security assessment for the ISO 27000 standard, there are certain features that Cisco needs to scale up. Not all products support it, so you need to be slightly careful, especially on the site track."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 122 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 1 review. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 3.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Low cost but unresponsive technical support and very unstable performance". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki MX, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, pfSense and Juniper SRX, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and SonicWall NSa.
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