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 most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The most valuable features of Cisco IOS Security are the plenty of functionality it provides, many people are IT certified the usage, and the user interface is good."
"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."
"The VPN connection portal scan works flawlessly, which was a big plus for us."
"One of the valuable features of the solution is its flexibility and it performs great."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"The solution is stable."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"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."
"Provides great functionality."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability scanning, policy compliance scanning, and tablet for web application scanning."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"I like that we have many scanners and channels that don't overload. It helps us scan and track easily. Also, the tagging system is good for tagging. We can still use QualysAgent task ID tools even if tags aren't made."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"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 solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"While Cisco IOS Security is stable and scalable, I would like to see it improved to be even better."
"The solution’s setup process could be better."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Most of their features are meant for Cisco. You cannot integrate them with any other vendor."
"We are moving away from Qualys to Defender ATP because I find that Defender ATP is much better at prioritizing the vulnerabilities that I should be looking at."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"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."
"I do not like that all of the data is stored on the cloud."
"There needs to be better documentation."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"The customer support is very bad."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 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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