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 is easy to use and performs very well."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"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."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco IOS Security is posturing."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability scanning, policy compliance scanning, and tablet for web application scanning."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."
"Qualys VM had a recent upgrade and the newer version is supporting the cloud."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"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."
"Technical support is fantastic."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"Cisco is an expensive firewall, so the pricing can be improved."
"Cisco is a scalable product, but it is expensive compared to other vendors."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see support for the 100BT and 7000 models."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"The graphical user interface or the GUI could be better. Beginners can use some devices with the GUI, but some security devices are configured using CLI. It would also be better if it had its own Intrusion Protection Service and Intrusion Detection Service on the server."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."
"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 should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"This solution could be improved by extending the agent capabilities to different operating systems including Mac and Linux. We would also like the capability to easily check for vulnerability in assets in the IOTs."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
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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