We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XGS 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 pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The solution can scale well."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Cisco offers a great educational series to train users on their devices."
"The most valuable feature is the access control list (ACL)."
"The protection and security features, like URL filtering, the inspection, and the IPS feature, are also very valuable for us. We don't have IT staff at most of the sites so for us it's important to have a robust firewall at those sites"
"The ASA 55-x range is a solid and reliable firewall. It secures the traffic for normal purposes."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"Its efficiency and security are the most important. We are more efficient and more secure."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to integrate vertically."
"It is a secure product."
"The solution is stable."
"Sophos XGS is profound as a firewall and security product."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"There are good KCL rules and policies as well as NATing rules."
"It's much faster than the previous firewall, so you can do the work faster."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are the ease of use and powerful interface."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"The artificial intelligence and machine learning (behavioral based threat detection), which I can this will be coming out in another year, these are what we need now."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"The application detection feature of this solution could be improved as well as its integration with other solutions."
"The product needs real-time logs to be able to monitor our services, so we can know if any our services have been blocked via the firewall or on the application side."
"We have encountered problems when implementing new signatures and new versions on our firewall. Sometimes, there is a short outage of our services, and we have not been able to understand what's going on. This is an area for improvement, and it would be good to have a way to monitor and understand why there is an outage."
"The inclusion of an autofill feature would improve the ease of commands."
"ASDM can be improved."
"The solution’s GUI could be better."
"I do not get notifications regarding ISP downtime."
"The solution could have a bit more functionality."
"The configurations can be a bit complex."
"Level one technical support is not good at all and needs to be improved."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having a Network Access Control(NAC). This feature is a basic function in other firewalls and should be added, such as Palo Alto."
"Support is great, however, it can always be improved."
"Having previously worked with the Astaro Security Gateway platform (now called Sophos UTM), I can attest that the configuration and dashboard for this older platform was easier to manage than that of both Sophos XG and XGS. If it were up to me, I would prefer to go back to the older SG dashboard."
"Sophos XGS needs improvement with the threshold values. Other solutions have the capacity to handle more users."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 60 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. 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 Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall NSa. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos XGS report.
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