We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The solution can scale well."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The configuration support is very good. You can find a lot of configuration samples and troubleshooting tips on the internet, which is very good."
"It is much better than most of the other firewalls that I have worked with."
"We definitely feel more secure. We have more control over things going in and out of our network."
"An eight because it's a good security solution. It's more mature than its competitors."
"The information coming from Talos does a good job... I like the fact that Cisco is working with them and getting the information from them and updating the firewall."
"The most important feature is the intensive way you can troubleshoot Cisco Firepower Firewalls. You can go to the bit level to see why traffic is not handled in the correct way, and the majority of the time it's a networking issue and not a firewall issue. You can solve any problem without Cisco TAC help, because you can go very deeply under the hood to find out how traffic is flowing and whether it is not flowing as expected. That is something I have never seen with other brands."
"It is scalable and stable."
"It is extremely stable I would say — at least after you deploy it."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"I have used Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point previously and I prefer the process of everything working together."
"One of my colleagues is using the firewall as an IPS, but he is worried about Firepower's performance... With the 10 Gb devices, when it gets to 5 Gbps, the CPU usage goes up a lot and he cannot manage the IPS."
"The ease of use needs improvement. It is complex to operate the solution. The user interface is not friendly."
"Other products are becoming easier to access and configure. They are providing UI interfaces to configure, take backup, synchronize redundant machines, and so on. It is very easy to take backup and upgrade the images in those products. Cisco ASA should have such features. If one redundant machine is getting upgraded, the technology and support should be there to upgrade other redundant machines. In a single window, we should be able to do more in terms of backups, restores, and upgrades."
"Cisco is still catching up with its Firepower Next-Generation firewalls."
"Antivirus features must be integrated for end user security."
"The ASA needs to incorporate the different modules you have to integrate to achieve UTM functions, especially for small businesses."
"Managing various product integrations, such as Umbrella, is challenging."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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