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."Its stability is the most valuable."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"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."
"One of the main features is that the hardware is extremely reliable."
"The VPN connection portal scan works flawlessly, which was a big plus for us."
"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 most valuable feature of Cisco IOS Security is posturing."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."
"Performs automated, regular scans in the network."
"Qualys VM's most valuable feature is automatic detection."
"Qualys VM has allowed us to know the vulnerabilities we need to prioritize based on the threat levels and the possible impact if there's an intrusion."
"Provides great functionality."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"While Cisco IOS Security is stable and scalable, I would like to see it improved to be even better."
"The solution is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve its security features. There are competitors that have some additional security features, such as Fortinet FortiGate. Additionally, there should be better synchronization with Cisco IOS Security and other vendors, and improved AI features would be beneficial."
"Cisco is a scalable product, but it is expensive compared to other vendors."
"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."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"I would like to see this solution more developed and competitive in the Cloud space."
"Qualys VM's machine learning and artificial intelligence features could be improved."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"Sometimes the scanning can get overwhelmed and start to drag when a lot of users are trying to scan at once."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"There's a need to upgrade or fix the potential vulnerability rate. Around 20,000 potential vulnerabilities were showing in Qualys VMDR, but none of the other tools showed them. When we checked, it wasn't the case. Support explained that even small issues were being counted as vulnerabilities, causing issues in our audit. So, the security features could be improved to identify vulnerabilities accurately."
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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