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."Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"One of the main features is that the hardware is extremely reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"There is a positive impact on security, particularly the intrusion feature, which helps keep the solution concealed and secure."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"The reporting is fine."
"Tech support is helpful."
"Provides great functionality."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"It needs more available central management."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"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."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"Sometimes I find it difficult to manage. Some configurations are difficult for new engineers, for example."
"I would love it if it has a link-by-link feature, integration with Unified Threat Management (UTM), and load balancers. They haven't got any link-by-link feature right now, which can be a very attractive option. This link-by-link feature can also be made available for Cisco's UTM firewalls. The link-by-link feature is available in some of the other firewalls. Currently, integration with UTM is missing. Cisco IOS Security also doesn't have the load balancers and a few things that need to be done to get a good UTM firewall. Normally, other firewalls have UTM. As a next-generation firewall, it's good, but as a UTM, it has to do some work."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"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."
"The routers, don't have like long-term tendency features, or higher availability features available for the IOS. It could also use a better user interface."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"Improve the user interface."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"This solution could be improved by extending the agent capabilities to different operating systems including Mac and Linux. We would also like the capability to easily check for vulnerability in assets in the IOTs."
"It's too early for me to say if there is any room for improvement since we're in the first couple of months of using this solution."
"The solution is a bit expensive if you do not have access to discounts."
"There needs to be better documentation."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 21 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 29 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "It's a reliable solution that will be around for a long time, but the configuration and reporting interfaces need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Accurate and effective with good reporting". 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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