We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet Fortigate based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Fortinet Fortigate comes out on top. Its ease of deployment combined with its solid set of features and excellent service and support ratings make it a more desirable solution than Cisco Secure Firewall.
"Cisco ASA Firewall is a well known product. They're always updating it, and you know what they're doing and that it works."
"Stability is perfect. I haven't had any problems."
"Right now, Cisco ASA NGFW has given us a lot of improvement. We are planning to move to a new facility and will be a much larger organization."
"The clusters in data centers are great."
"This solution has good security, and it's a good product. You can trust Cisco, and there's support as well, which is really good."
"The most important feature is the VPN connection."
"Its ability to work with the traffic."
"We are mostly using it for remote access, so the remote access feature is the most valuable, but all other features are also needed and required. It is also a very straightforward and reliable solution."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"We don't have any serious problems. The firewall models that we have are quite legacy, and they have slower performance. We are currently investigating the possibility of migrating to next-generation firewalls."
"Cisco is not cheap, however, it is worth investing in these technologies."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"The user interface is too complex for people who are not trained to or certified to engage with the product. The interface should be easier to use."
"Make the IPS baked-in."
"The stability could be better because we have a lot of issues with the stability of Cisco Firepower."
"I'm working on a slightly older version, but what it needs is a better alert management. It's pretty standard, but there's no real advanced features involved around it."
"The user interface isn't as good as it could be. They should work to improve it. It would make it easier for customer management if it was easier to use."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Check Point NGFW and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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