We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The solution can scale well."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"One of the best features is the ease of use. It's also easy to teach new engineers to use the ASA CLI."
"Its ability to work with the traffic."
"Being able to use it as a policy-based VPN is valuable. It's very easy to understand. It's very easy to troubleshoot."
"I'm a big fan of SecureX, Cisco's platform for tying together all the different security tools. It has a lot of flexibility and even a lot of third-party or non-Cisco integration. I feel like that's a really valuable tool."
"The product is easy to manage and simple. It works with the rest of our Cisco products. You can drop in new ones if you need more performance. The training and documentation provided are good."
"The most valuable feature is that it has the ability to divide the network into three parts; internal, external, and DMZ."
"The most valuable Cisco Secure Firewall features are options, features, and ease of deployment because it's an appliance."
"Easy to deploy in a working environment between servers and users."
"I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site."
"SNMP status monitoring and the Central Management Software."
"There is a site-to-site VPN configuration between others people."
"Application Control is fantastic with over 2,500 applications and the granularity that we can either allow people to view but not be able to log on to Facebook; or view it and log onto it if they're in the marketing department, but not play Facebook games. There are all sorts of different options like that. So it's highly granular."
"They have a reporting system which can store data over a very long period of time. Not many other firewall vendors provide a reporting system, but if they do, like Fortinet does, then you've got buy that as an additional product and that can be more than twice as expensive as the initial investment in the firewall. And without reporting over a long-term period, you're just about wasting your time."
"Reputation Enabled Defense indicates that some websites are so infested that it's not even worth visiting them, and therefore saving the bandwidth of going through the detection process."
"WatchGuard XTM is fairly basic. We use it as the perimeter firewall. The main point is to protect from attack software and hacking."
"It is stable and does not require you to reboot all the time."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"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."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Comparing Cisco solution to others, it is expensive, it would be better for it to be cheaper."
"I wouldn't give them a ten. Nobody is perfect. I'll give them a nine because they help me with any issues I've had."
"They really need support for deployment."
"Migration with other appliances is not easy. It has to be done manually, and this takes a long time."
"The price and SD-WAN capabilities are the areas that need improvement."
"MSSP oriented interface: I would like a single console which would allow me to manage settings creating consistency across all customers."
"Virtual patching would be helpful for servers that are not able to update patches due to compatibility issues."
"There are always vulnerabilities that come up and there was one in early 2018 but this was patched with software updates."
"The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
"Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer)."
"The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
"WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
"One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here."
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Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while WatchGuard XTM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while WatchGuard XTM [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 WatchGuard XTM [EOL] writes "The multi-layer security of the products are the primary reason we use these appliances, however, the gateway wireless functionality for managing access points leaves much to be desired". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas WatchGuard XTM [EOL] is most compared with .
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