We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Cisco Secure Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is the graphical user interface, works out, and Cisco keeps it current."
"The configuration was kind of straightforward from the command line and also from the ASDM. It was very easy to manage by using their software in Java."
"They wanted to leverage something which is equivalent that can give them the next gen features like application awareness and intrusion protection. So that is a major reason they were looking forward to this. The original ASA firewall did not have these features. This was the major reason the customer moved on to Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). Now they can go ahead and leverage those functionalities."
"You do not have to do everything through a command line which makes it a lot easier to apply rules."
"So far, it has been very stable."
"The remote access, VPN, and ACL features are valuable. We are using role-based access for individuals."
"Cisco ASA Firewall is a well known product. They're always updating it, and you know what they're doing and that it works."
"The deep packet inspection is useful, but the most useful feature is application awareness. You can filter on the app rather than on a static TCP port."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The license system is also good but it's not very impressive. It's a very regular licensing system. They call it a smart license which means that your device will connect to the internet. This is a little bit of a headache for some customers. It doesn't make the customer happy because most of the customers prefer not to connect their firewall or system to the internet."
"It would be great to have all the data correlated to have an overview and one point of administration."
"We use the FTD management platform for the boxes. The GUI that manages multiple Firepower boxes could be improved so that the user experience is better."
"Cisco wasn't first-to-market with NGFWs... they should look at what other vendors are doing and try not only to be on the same wavelength but a little bit better."
"In terms of next-generation capabilities, Cisco is a little behind, and it is way behind the market leaders."
"Cisco is still catching up with its Firepower Next-Generation firewalls."
"The main problem we have is that things work okay until we upgrade the firmware, at which point, everything changes, and the net stops working."
"We would like to see MS Word BPM as a feature."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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