We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The security on offer is very good."
"It is a safe product."
"It is easy to create interfaces and routing, which all can be done at the GUI level."
"The setup was straightforward. I was happy with the configuration and deployment of the solution, as it was quick."
"The best solutions for our company are those we have yet to implement so it will be even better in the future for us than it already is."
"I love the ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is the management suite. It's a GUI and you're able to see everything at a glance without using the command line. There are those who love the CLI, but with ASDM it is easier to see where everything is going and where the problems are."
"One of the most valuable features of Firepower 7.0 is the "live log" type feature called Unified Event Viewer. That view has been really good in helping me get to data faster, decreasing the amount of time it takes to find information, and allowing me to fix problems faster. I've found that to be incredibly valuable because it's a lot easier to get to some points of data now."
"The feature that I found most valuable is the overall stability of the product."
"Its in-depth monitoring and analysis help us to make better decisions and policies."
"Firepower has reduced our firewall operational costs by about 25 percent."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The solution is very expensive."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The ability to better integrate with other tools would be an improvement."
"Lacks a good graphical user interface."
"Cisco suffers from some integration issues with other products... There is a problem with the Cisco Catalyst Switches in terms of assembling bursts and having them interact properly with the Cisco Firepower."
"Intrusion prevention, we currently need to apply deep bracket inspection manually to use web filtering."
"One thing that Cisco could improve is the GUI. The graphic user interface should be more user-friendly."
"We wanted to integrate Firepower with our solution, but it didn't have the capability to accommodate our bandwidth since they only had two 10 gig interfaces on the box. We run way more than that through our network because we are a service provider, providing Internet to our customers."
"In NGFW, Cisco should be aligned with the new technology and inspection intelligence because Cisco is far behind in this pipeline."
"I would like to see them add more next-generation features so that you don't need a lot of appliances to do just one task. It should be a single solution."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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