We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Fortinet FortiGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"The product's stability is good."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The solution is stable."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"The VPN connection portal scan works flawlessly, which was a big plus for us."
"Cisco IOS Security is very robust and works very well."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"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."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"With respect to user-friendliness, it is a command-line interface and those with such experience will get along just fine, whereas others may struggle."
"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."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"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 UTM filtering needs improvement."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. 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 Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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