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."It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"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."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The security is very good."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"Previously, anyone in the organization would see any data point in the wall. They could just go and connect their machine with that data point and could access the network. But now, even if someone came and tried that, they will not be given access."
"The capabilities for scalability with this product are huge"
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to deal with."
"Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"It is a stable solution."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"The vulnerability management feature is what I used the most. It is a good SaaS product. It is easy to use. It has a nice UI where you can see all the assets and vulnerabilities."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"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."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"Application management can be improved."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"Sometimes I find it difficult to manage. Some configurations are difficult for new engineers, for example."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"There's a technology called SD-WAN that we would like to see. We are unable to handle multiple connections or to automatically load balance. I would like to have a feature that enables us to automatically prepare for load balancing."
"I would like to see this solution simplified to work more easily in a multi-cloud environment."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"Qualys VM's vulnerability scan could be improved, especially the number of CVE numbers it can manage at a time."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"It's quite complex on the way it is set up, so it takes a fair bit of time in order to get your head around it in order to deploy it. Once you've deployed it, then you're never confident on the versions of the browsers and the SSL certificates, etc. You have to always go back into Qualys and check."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
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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