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 features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The VPN connection portal scan works flawlessly, which was a big plus for us."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"We use the product for firewalls."
"The product is easy to use."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The technical support is good."
"Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"Technical support is fantastic."
"It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability scanning, policy compliance scanning, and tablet for web application scanning."
"The most recent is VMDR, which provides a comprehensive overview of how to detect, patch, and remediate specific vulnerabilities."
"The solution shows us classic categories, including high, medium, and low risks. It also shows critical items, and that gives us the advantage of prioritizing things."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a stable solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"Application management can be improved."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"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."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"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."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."
"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"It is more expensive vs. other products on the market."
"Qualys currently does not have any features for scanning SCADA, IoT, and Industrial Control Systems."
"If anything, I would like to see the user interface modernized a bit more."
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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