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."It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"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."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"We use the product for firewalls."
"The product's stability is good."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"Completely integrates branch offices with perimeter security."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"Previously, anyone in the organization would see any data point in the wall. They could just go and connect their machine with that data point and could access the network. But now, even if someone came and tried that, they will not be given access."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"It makes management very easy."
"A fully integrated solution."
"It can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"The setup is very simple."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"The reports are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see support for the 100BT and 7000 models."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"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."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"I think setup could be one area for improvement, because sometimes we don't have people inside so we have to move to the place."
"Cisco is a scalable product, but it is expensive compared to other vendors."
"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
"Regional support in African countries needs to be improved."
"In the next release, FortiManager should include more protection features."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"The product is not very stable."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd 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, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, 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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