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"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution is stable."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The most valuable feature for the customers is that they can control what communication is allowed and what is not allowed. That is, they can allow or deny client traffic."
"The most valuable feature is that it has the ability to divide the network into three parts; internal, external, and DMZ."
"Stability, high availability of services, and very high MTBU were the most valuable features for me."
"This solution has good security, and it's a good product. You can trust Cisco, and there's support as well, which is really good."
"The security features are the most valuable. My customers find the security products very useful because nowadays there are many threats from the internet and other malicious users. The security products really help."
"It is very stable."
"The firewall power that comes with Cisco ASAv is the most valuable asset. They are are very easy to manage."
"Cybersecurity resilience has been paramount. Because there is a threat of losing everything if ransomware or another sort of attack were to happen, the cybersecurity resilience has been top-notch."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"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."
"It doesn't have a proper GUI to do troubleshooting, so most people have to rely on the command line."
"It is surprising that you need to have a virtual appliance for the Firepower Management Center. It is not good if you have to setup a VMware server just for it."
"It can probably provide a holistic view of different appliances because many customers do not have only one brand, besides the traditional SNMP protocols, to cover all their devices. There are some specific requirements in terms of configurations or actions that sometimes have to be done in a very manual way because of the different versions or brands in a customer's infrastructure. It could also have some additional analytics capabilities. It has some very interesting ways to monitor the traffic and identify false positives from the architecture and the environment. It would be good if there is a way to patch with some other industry-specific solutions and synchronize some of the information, such as what other customers experience in their operations and probably share some additional information that could be leveraged or shared among the industry. Such information would be something interesting to see. It could have AI capabilities related to how the appliances could benefit from learning the current environment and different exposures."
"There is no support here in Georgia. If something goes wrong, support is not always very helpful with the other firewalls or other products."
"Cisco ASA is starting to get old and Firepower is taking over. All the good things happening are with Firepower."
"HTTPs inspection and higher throughput/spec would be good."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
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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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