We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It's very easy to configure."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"The product is easy to use."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The hardware is pretty stable. It's also a very good product performance-wise. Initially, it wasn't mature like a firewall and there were other leaders, but now they have included almost all the features of next-generation security. Basically, it's a good product to work with."
"Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"Stability is good within the product."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"The solution is very stable."
"The reports feature is excellent."
"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiManager is the ability to control all the devices from a central location, view their statuses, and manage their configurations and updates from a single management console."
"It can scale well."
"There is something called zero-touch provisioning, where you can add a new device without any configuration. You just add it to FortiManager and then forget about it."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"In the security portfolio from Cisco, the issue is marketing. Cisco is still seen primarily as an enterprise network player rather than being acknowledged as a security vendor."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"Sometimes I find it difficult to manage. Some configurations are difficult for new engineers, for example."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"We cannot directly upgrade the system. The tool's deployment is also very difficult in legacy environments. The tool needs to have bigger ports as well."
"There are the usual bugs that are inherent to some software upgrades. Sometimes this provides some unexpected issues, however, it happens with all brands all the time."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"I didn't like the connectivity with FortiManager and FortiSwitch, which was buggy and annoying and had fewer features."
"The price always has room for improvement."
"Regional support in African countries needs to be improved."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"When I started, it was a bit difficult, however, now it's okay. It can be a bit complex for basic users."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiOS, Meraki MX, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and AlgoSec.
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