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 solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"The VPN connection portal scan works flawlessly, which was a big plus for us."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"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."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"One of the valuable features of the solution is its flexibility and it performs great."
"The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature."
"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."
"This is one of the best products I have worked with so far. I like the power of Qualys, and it's a better solution because you can scan a compact file, a BIT file, or batch files. The product already knows what's happening inside, and you don't need to expand the package. Tenable will do the same thing, but you need to have a package issuance claim. With Qualys, we can immediately understand the file, even a compact file. If there's some kind of discovery or incident, you will know what happened in the environment."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"It is quite easy to implement."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"Provides great functionality."
"The Vulnerability Management and Patch Management features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Tech support is helpful."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"In the security portfolio from Cisco, the issue is marketing. Cisco is still seen primarily as an enterprise network player rather than being acknowledged as a security vendor."
"The configuration and reporting interfaces need a lot of improvement. It needs to be more accessible forsolide without a strong technical background. If you had a simplified dashboard, the lower-level techs could manage the solution and provide services. Cisco IOS Security requires someone who is highly trained to operate it."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"We cannot directly upgrade the system. The tool's deployment is also very difficult in legacy environments. The tool needs to have bigger ports as well."
"Its integration with ServiceNow and other similar products is complicated and can be improved. It should also have virtual batching. They should support more standards and compliance requirements and more customizations. For policy compliance, they can add the standards required by the countries in the Middle East. Each country generates its own standards and frameworks, and those frameworks should be there in all products, not only in Qualys. The market here is huge, especially in the cybersecurity field. Qatar has a framework for Qatar 2022, and each and every company in the public or private sector has to follow the Qatar 2022 framework."
"Improve the user interface."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"Qualys VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"Qualys VM's machine learning and artificial intelligence features could be improved."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"The reporting in this solution can be improved."
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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