We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, and Null Product based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The solution is excellent for enterprise-level networks."
"Even in very big environments, Cisco comes in handy with configuration and offers reliability when it comes to managing multiple items on one platform."
"It is scalable and stable."
"I work with Cisco and other partners, but the Cisco team is the best team in our country. When I call them, they always help us."
"It makes it very easy to have delineated roles and responsibilities between network engineering and network security."
"If you compare the ASA and the FirePOWER, the best feature with FirePOWER is easy to use GUI. It has most of the same functionality in the Next-Generation FirePOWER, such as IPS, IPS policies, security intelligence, and integration and identification of all the devices or hardware you have in your network. Additionally, this solution is user-friendly."
"Cisco's engineer helped us with a lot of scripting to see what existed. Previously, we didn't have a proper policy. In fact, we didn't have any policy because we didn't have any firewall for the data center, so generating a policy was a big challenge. Cisco's engineer helped us to do some scripting and find out what kind of policy we can have and organize those policies. That was nice."
"The ASA 55-x range is a solid and reliable firewall. It secures the traffic for normal purposes."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The application detection feature of this solution could be improved as well as its integration with other solutions."
"As it’s a GenX firewall, expertise for both implementation and troubleshooting the pain points can be a challenge. This could be a concern when companies are thinking about buying this product."
"They need to do an overhaul of the management console."
"The pricing is a bit high."
"Sometimes, it is not easy to troubleshoot. You need to know where to go. It took me quite awhile. It's like, "Okay, if it doesn't go smoothly here, then go find the documentation." Once you do it, it is not so bad. However, it is sometimes a steep learning curve on the troubleshooting part of it."
"We are still running the original ASAs. The software that you are running for the ASDM software and Java application has never been a lot of fun to operate. It would have been nice to see that change update be redesigned with modern systems, which don't play nicely with Java sometimes. Cybersecurity doesn't seem to love how that operates. For us, a fresher application, taking advantage of the hardware, would have been a better approach."
"The user interface for the Firepower management console is a little bit different from traditional Cisco management tools. If you look at products we already use, like Cisco Prime or other products that are cloud-based, they have a more modern user interface for managing the products. For Firepower, the user interface is not very user-friendly. It's a little bit confusing sometimes."
"There may have been one or two incidences of malicious threats."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
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