We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"In v9.8 you are able to do active/backup HA with ASAv (Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance) deployed on MS Azure."
"The CLI is the most valuable feature. This solution is very flexible and offers different functionality including firewalls and VPN connectivity."
"One thing I like about the product is the logging features, the way it logs, the way it forwards the logs in Syslog."
"Cisco's technical support is the best and that's why everybody implements their products."
"It helped us a lot with our VPNs for the home office during COVID. There has been more security and flexibility for VPNs and other applications."
"Cisco Secure Firewall is robust and reliable."
"We can shift traffic, block certain content, or redirect policies."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Application management can be improved."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The reports are very basic."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"A major area of improvement would be to have more functionality in public clouds, especially in terms of simplifying it. The high availability doesn't work right now because of the limitations in the cloud."
"I was just trying to learn how this product actually operates and one thing that I see from internal processing is it does fire-walling and then sends it to the IPS model and any other model that needs to be performed. For example, content checking or filtering will be done in a field processing manner. That is something that causes delays in the network, from a security perspective. That is something that can be improved upon. Palo Alto already has implemented this as a pilot passed processing. So they put the same stream of data across multiple modules at the same time and see if it is giving a positive result by using an XR function. So, something similar can be done in the Cisco Firepower. Instead of single processing or in a sequential manner, they can do something similar to pile processing. Internal function that is something that they can improve upon."
"It should be easier for the IT management or the admin to configure products. For example, the firewall products are not very straightforward for many users. They should be easier to configure and should be more straightforward."
"HTTPs inspection and higher throughput/spec would be good."
"I would like it if they made the newer generation a bit simpler. You can do ASA code and FXOS. It is just a bit confusing with the newer generational equipment on what it can do."
"It would be good if Cisco made sure that the solution supports all routing protocols. Sometimes it doesn't."
"I have found that Cisco reporting capabilities are not as rich as other products, so the reporting could be improved."
"One area that could be improved is its logging functionality. Your logs are usually displayed on the screen, but if you want to go back one or two days, then you need another solution in place because those logs are overwritten within minutes."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security and Nozomi Networks.
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