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."It's an easy solution to set up."
"The interface is very good."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"It can expand easily."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"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."
"Completely integrates branch offices with perimeter security."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"The product's stability is good."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"Cisco products are very secure and integrate easily with other devices."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most recent is VMDR, which provides a comprehensive overview of how to detect, patch, and remediate specific vulnerabilities."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"It's a good product. After the scan our internet works well. It scans our security posture."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"This solution gives us insight into our environment and improves our security. It helps us to maintain a good patching system whereby we know that XYZ is vulnerable within the system."
"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 pricing could always be better."
"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."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"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 its security features. There are competitors that have some additional security features, such as Fortinet FortiGate. Additionally, there should be better synchronization with Cisco IOS Security and other vendors, and improved AI features would be beneficial."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"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."
"I would like upgrading iOS to be a bit easier."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"I would like to have CSPM, a continuous scan-like cloud added to the solution."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"Qualys currently does not have any features for scanning SCADA, IoT, and Industrial Control Systems."
"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 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 "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". 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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