"You do not have to do everything through a command line which makes it a lot easier to apply rules."
"Being able to determine our active users vs inactive users has led us to increased productivity through visibility. Also, if an issue was happening with our throughput, then we wouldn't know without research. Now, notifications are more proactively happening."
"Firepower has been used for quite a few enterprise clients. Most of our clients are Fortune 500 and Firepower is used to improve their end to end firewall functionality."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"I have experience with URL filtering, and it is very good for URL filtering. You can filter URLs based on the categories, and it does a good job. It can also do deep packet inspection."
"I like the firewall features, Snort, and the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"Web filtering is a big improvement for us. The previous version we used, the AC520, did not have that feature included. It was not very easy for us, especially because the environment had to be isolated and we needed to get updates from outside, such as Windows patches. That feature has really helped us when we are going outside to pull those patches."
"The interface is good."
"It is more robust than SonicWall, particularly on the VPN from site to site."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"The user experience is great. The graphical user interface is also good."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"I have found the most valuable features to be the policies, cache, and the SD-WAN."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. So, you need to ship it out elsewhere in order for you to store it. The only point of consideration is around that area, basically limited storage on the machine and appliance. Consider logging it elsewhere or pushing it out to a SIEM to get better controls and manipulation over the data to generate additional metrics and visibility."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall can be more secure."
"Implementations require the use of a console. It would help if the console was embedded."
"The performance should be improved."
"This product is managed using the Firepower Management Center (FMC), but it would be better if it also supported the command-line interface (CLI)."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"We cannot have virtual domains, which we can create with FortiGate. This is something they should add in the future. Additionally, there is a connection limit and the FMC could improve."
"FortiOS doesn't work well with all browsers. I think they need to do a better job of making it compatible with the various browsers that are out there."
"Fortinet FortiOS could improve by having better authentication methods with Microsoft or Google Services."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"The pricing of the product is too high."
"The technical support is good. However, during the holidays they can get a little slow to respond."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboard easier to use."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 2 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Robust, scales well using FortiManager, and you have a choice of two different modes to run in". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Low cost but unresponsive technical support and very unstable performance". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Firewall, Darktrace, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa.
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