We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"One of the nice things about Firepower is that you can set it to discover the environment. If that is happening, then Firepower is learning about every device, software operating system, and application running inside or across your environment. Then, you can leverage the discovery intelligence to get Firepower to select the most appropriate intrusion prevention rules to use for your environment rather than picking one of the base policies that might have 50,000 IPS rules in it, which can put a lot of overhead on your firewall. If you choose the recommendations, as long as you update them regularly, you might be able to get your rule set down to only 1,000 or 1,500, which is a significant reduction in a base rule set. This means that the firewall will give you better performance because there are less rules being checked unnecessarily. That is really useful."
"It protects our network."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the access control and IPsec VPN."
"The stability of the product is good."
"I like the way Firepower presents the data. It gives you two classifications for the evidence, something based on the priority of the evidence and another classification based on the impact of the evidence in your environment. This makes it very easy to spot the evidence that is most impactful to my environment. Instead of having to go through all the evidence based on that priority, I can focus on the evidence that has the most impact on my environment."
"Collaboration with other Cisco products such as ISE and others is the most valuable feature."
"Its efficiency and security are the most important. We are more efficient and more secure."
"When it comes to the integration among Cisco tools, we find it easy. It's a very practical integration with other components as well."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"Palo Alto firewalls are scalable enough. We have about 110 employees in our company, and we are about to expand to 130."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"This is a very reliable firewall and we have never had problems with it."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"It caters to typical use cases across various technologies. MDR and XDR, for example, focus on user and endpoint protection. It's pretty straightforward."
"It needs more available central management."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"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."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Cisco is not cheap, however, it is worth investing in these technologies."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"The product crashes. We have a cluster of firewalls and we regularly get failovers."
"I would like the ability to drill down into certain reports because currently, that cannot be done."
"Its user interface is good, but it could be better. Currently, you have to know what to do before you can manage a device. If you don't know what to do, you can mess things up. There are some devices that are easier, such as FortiGate. The user interface of FortiGate is more intuitive. It is very easy to log in and configure things."
"The integration between the on-prem proxy world and the cloud proxy would benefit us. One single policy setting would make sense."
"The licensing needs simplification."
"I would like for the user interface to be easier for the admin and network admin. I would also like to be able to access everything from the GUI interface. The way it is now, it needs somebody experience in iOS to be able to operate it. I would like to have a GUI interface."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"The password function of the solution could be improved. Additionally, some of the processes take too long to complete."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"If we have issues, they take anywhere from two days to a week to respond. I even wrote to their CEO because there was no response. When it comes to support, this is the worst company."
"Palo Alto releases a lot of bug fixes for their firewalls, which means it's necessary to do frequent upgrades. They should work on decreasing their bugs so that upgrades aren't needed so often."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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