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 IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The GUI is good."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"There is a positive impact on security, particularly the intrusion feature, which helps keep the solution concealed and secure."
"The hardware is pretty stable. It's also a very good product performance-wise. Initially, it wasn't mature like a firewall and there were other leaders, but now they have included almost all the features of next-generation security. Basically, it's a good product to work with."
"In Pakistan, we only use Cisco because they have good local support infrastructure. Huawei and Fortinet don't offer direct support in Pakistan."
"Cisco products are very secure and integrate easily with other devices."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"I like that we have many scanners and channels that don't overload. It helps us scan and track easily. Also, the tagging system is good for tagging. We can still use QualysAgent task ID tools even if tags aren't made."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Its price could be better."
"The solution’s setup process could be better."
"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."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"I think setup could be one area for improvement, because sometimes we don't have people inside so we have to move to the place."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"It would be nice to have an all-in-one solution that was automated and could handle the scanning and reports as well as the patching and updating."
"I do not like that all of the data is stored on the cloud."
"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."
"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."
"Qualys VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"We are moving away from Qualys to Defender ATP because I find that Defender ATP is much better at prioritizing the vulnerabilities that I should be looking at."
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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