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.
"I like that Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall is reliable. Support is also good."
"Logging is great. It will show when it reaches its capacity before it is too late, unless you have bursts of traffic."
"Cisco ASA NGFW significantly improves our bank. It protects any high-value products that we use from hackers, viruses, malware, and script-bots. It gives us metrics on network traffic as well as what kind of attacks we are getting from the outside."
"For business purposes, it's a very detailed solution, which is it's greatest benefit, as you can get almost any piece of information you need from the solution. It allows for admins to be able to troubleshoot pretty easily."
"One thing I like about the product is the logging features, the way it logs, the way it forwards the logs in Syslog."
"Its Snort 3 IPS has better flexibility as far as being able to write rules. This gives me better granularity."
"Simple to deploy, stable."
"I like all of the features."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The graphical interface should be improved to make the configuration easier, to do things with a single click."
"Cisco Secure Firewall's integration with cloud providers has room for improvement. We could do more in terms of integration, for example, if we had a tag on an instance."
"There are always vulnerabilities that come up and there was one in early 2018 but this was patched with software updates."
"I would like for them to develop better integration with other security platforms."
"Cisco Secure Firewall’s customer support could be improved."
"The Firepower FTD code is missing some old ASA firewalls codes. It's a small thing. But Firepower software isn't missing things that are essential, anymore."
"<p>If there is old hardware, or appliances, it does not necessarily work with the new Cisco generation firewalls."
"The artificial intelligence and machine learning (behavioral based threat detection), which I can this will be coming out in another year, these are what we need now."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
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 Juniper SRX Series Firewall, 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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