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."FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"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."
"Completely integrates branch offices with perimeter security."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to deal with."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"The most valuable feature of Qualys Container Security is the detailed information in the reports and the remediation. This is done to make sure there are no vulnerabilities."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"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."
"Qualys VM's best features are vulnerability management and customizable scoring."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The initial setup is complex."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"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."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"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."
"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."
"Most of their features are meant for Cisco. You cannot integrate them with any other vendor."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"Sometimes I find it difficult to manage. Some configurations are difficult for new engineers, for example."
"The routers, don't have like long-term tendency features, or higher availability features available for the IOS. It could also use a better user interface."
"I would like upgrading iOS to be a bit easier."
"Qualys Container Security can improve the interface. It could be easier to navigate and be enriched."
"The customer support is very bad."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"The tool needs to improve the adding assets and report generation features. I would like to see the policy scan of offline appliances in the product's future releases."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"Qualys VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"There needs to be better documentation."
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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