"It is one of the fastest solutions, if not the fastest, in the security technology space. This gives us peace of mind knowing that as soon as a new attack comes online that we will be protected in short order. From that perspective, no one really comes close now to Firepower, which is hugely valuable to us from an upcoming new attack prevention perspective."
"When it comes to the integration among Cisco tools, we find it easy. It's a very practical integration with other components as well."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"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 customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"Firepower NGFW has improved my organization in several ways. Before, we were trying to stamp out security threats and issues, it was a one-off type of way to attack it. I spent a lot of manpower trying to track down the individual issues or flare-ups that we would see. With Cisco's Firepower Management, we're able to have that push up to basically one monitor and one UI and be able to track that and stop threats immediately. It also gives us a little more granularity on what those threats might be."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"The standard features, including the filtering, are quite good. All the basic features are pretty useful for us."
"FortiGate-VM has many valuable features: it's easy to use, it's intuitive, it's got very good traffic inspection features, it's got comprehensive filtering categories, and it has an extensive threat database, using FortiGuard."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"I really like that it's internationally deployable."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is easy to use."
"The technical support is very good."
"It is very versatile."
"The most valuable features are the SD-WAN and the web filtering applications control."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"Implementations require the use of a console. It would help if the console was embedded."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex for those unfamiliar with the solution."
"One of the few things that are brought up is that for the overall management, it would be great to have a cloud instance of that. And not only just a cloud instance, but one of the areas that we've looked at is using an HA type of cloud. To have the ability to have a device file within a cloud. If we had an issue with one, the other one would pick up automatically."
"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could offer an open interface to other security products so that we could easily connect to our own open industry standard."
"The product line does not address the SMB market as it is supposed to do. Cisco already has an on-premises sandbox solution."
"FirePOWER does a good job when it comes to providing us with visibility into threats, but I would like to see a more proactive stance to it."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"Web filtering is a feature that needs some improvement. There should be some additional features to allow active users to change their own passwords."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"When new versions are deployed they tend to be a little buggy, so they should be more fully tested before release."
"The log settings and filters could use some improvement."
"They should keep us up to date about the latest version. That's the biggest thing. Currently, we have to go looking for the latest version. We should get notified about what's going on with the versions. I would like to see easier dual-factor authentication."
"The reporting is not as good as it is with other firewalls and it should be improved."
"It is difficult to size the VM in terms of machine resources, and for this reason, clients prefer the appliance."
"The one thing that could be improved is the integration with the exchange. The gateway level controls can be enhanced a bit more. For example, it's still little here and there. You do get malicious attacks and suspicious emails like spam. It's not like Sophos where we got a lot of spam email, and yet, it's still relatively vulnerable. It can be upgraded, maybe with a fifth-generation firmware that it is ready for unknown threats."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 65 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 2 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "Flexible with good cloud management and a straightforward user interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Low cost but unresponsive technical support and very unstable performance". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, OPNsense and Sophos UTM, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ.
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