"I like that Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall is reliable. Support is also good."
"The most valuable feature is the Intrusion Prevention System."
"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."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"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."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"The feature set is fine and is rarely a problem."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"This solution works well. Their switches and firewall are good."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex for those unfamiliar with the solution."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"I think they need to review their whole UI because it feels like it was created by a whole bunch of different teams of developers who didn't fully talk to each other. The net policy screen is just a mess. It should look like the firewall policy screen, and they should both act the same, but they don't. I feel like it's two different buildings or programming, who don't talk to each other, and that really annoys me."
"Cisco makes horrible UIs, so the interface is something that should be improved."
"They need a VTI. I know it's going to be available in the next software version, which is the 6.7 version. However, the problem with that is that the 6.7 is going to deprecate all the older IKEv1 deployment tunnels. Therefore, the problem is that we have a lot of customers which are using older encryptions. If I do that, update it, it's not going to work for me."
"The initial setup was a bit complex. It wasn't a major challenge, but due to our requirements and network, it was not very straightforward but still easy enough."
"A major area of improvement would be to have more functionality in public clouds, especially in terms of simplifying it. The high availability doesn't work right now because of the limitations in the cloud."
"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."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"There are too many types of licenses, which can be confusing."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"VPN access is an area that needs improvement."
"The reporting can be improved."
"Some people complain that the solution tends to have a steep learning curve. It could be because most people have basic familiarity with Cisco or other similar products and maybe have never worked closely with Juniper products."
"Fortinet is more user friendly than Juniper. In terms of remote access, I actually prefer using Fortinet. It's much easier to configure."
"The GUI really needs a lot of work, and it has got worse with successive version updates."
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