We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"ASDM provides GUI for configurations. The ASDM has made configuring ASA easy. No need to memorize CLI commands."
"Collaboration with other Cisco products such as ISE and others is the most valuable feature."
"The management aspect of the product is very straightforward."
"Its in-depth monitoring and analysis help us to make better decisions and policies."
"To be honest, all of the features that are provided, all the other vendor will also have. One feature we did find valuable was the CLI, it is more accurate. Additionally, I was happy with the customization, dashboards, access lists and interface."
"URL filtering is valuable."
"It joins all branches and permits employees to work outside their offices, but everything is based on high securities standards (PCI compliance)."
"The high-availability and remote VPN features are most valuable."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Backup can be improved."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The process of procuring modern-day technology within the DOD needs to improve."
"We would like to see improvement in recovery. If there is an issue that forces us to do recovery, we have to restart or reboot. In addition, sometimes we have downtime during the maintenance windows. If Cisco could enhance this, so that upgrades would not necessarily require downtime, that would be helpful."
"The relatively new Firepower Threat Defense image (mix of ASA and Sourcefire network security) fills a lot of gaps and features that were missing on ASA."
"10Gb interfaces should be available on more models."
"Cisco ASA is not a next-generation firewall product."
"One thing that we really would have loved to have was policy-based routing. We had a lot of connections, and sometimes, we would have liked to change the routing depending on the policies, but it was lacking this capability. We also wanted application filtering and DNS filtering."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"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 interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. 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 Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security and Nozomi Networks.
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