We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"The capabilities for scalability with this product are huge"
"The VPN was valuable for us because more people are working from home. It has a lot of reporting and easy-to-use management tools."
"We use the product for firewalls."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the main features is that the hardware is extremely reliable."
"The most recent is VMDR, which provides a comprehensive overview of how to detect, patch, and remediate specific vulnerabilities."
"I find Qualys VM very robust, and it's very useful for vulnerability management and patch management. The value that it brings to my environment is economies of scale. There is no limitation on adding any endpoints. You go by the rule, and it's added once another endpoint is added to our environment. It's automatically installed, and it's less work from our end. It frees up my license automatically if I don't need an endpoint or if my machine is decommissioned. I like the dashboard displays because I don't see any duplication. The most important part is vulnerability management and prioritization. Unlike Symantec, it shows the kind of vulnerability I would want to patch first. It provides a holistic view of the kind of vulnerabilities and the ones I should remediate first. I don't have to do a scan; it just brings up those critical kinds of vulnerabilities like zero-day vulnerabilities and tells me to prioritize them. You have to prioritize these vulnerabilities first and go on with the rest. The dashboard shows me the ones that have been fixed, so I don't have to complete an aging report. The user experience and the graphical interface are good. As it's user-friendly and understandable on an executive level, it brings real value. We also use this solution because it's robust and flexibile."
"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"The solution shows us classic categories, including high, medium, and low risks. It also shows critical items, and that gives us the advantage of prioritizing things."
"Qualys VM's best feature is vulnerability management."
"The reporting is fine."
"The most valuable features of Qualys VM are its ability to do proper vulnerability assessment. It has a lot of updates for all the vulnerability databases from all over the globe. It's an amazing solution when it comes to the versatility of the features it has. Additionally, the reports are very good. It generates very detailed reports about the vulnerabilities inside the environment"
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Sometimes I find it difficult to manage. Some configurations are difficult for new engineers, for example."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"An area for improvement in Cisco IOS Security is the performance because it's not as stable sometimes. There's also some latency in the solution, which could be improved. Cisco IOS Security integrates with other solutions, but you'll encounter many errors after integration, so this is another area for improvement. I'd like to see enhanced performance and a simplified setup in the next version of Cisco IOS Security."
"With respect to user-friendliness, it is a command-line interface and those with such experience will get along just fine, whereas others may struggle."
"Cisco is an expensive firewall, so the pricing can be improved."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"While Cisco IOS Security is stable and scalable, I would like to see it improved to be even better."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"There needs to be better documentation."
"When tested on Zero day, there were errors."
"It would be nice to have an all-in-one solution that was automated and could handle the scanning and reports as well as the patching and updating."
"The solution is a bit expensive if you do not have access to discounts."
"It is more expensive vs. other products on the market."
"Qualys VM's machine learning and artificial intelligence features could be improved."
"Sometimes we face a problem with accessing the tool and not getting an expected result. From a technology point of view, they need to look into this."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 46 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 76 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "A mature product with good integration capabilities, however, it needs to be more affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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