We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Cisco IOS Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The hardware is pretty stable. It's also a very good product performance-wise. Initially, it wasn't mature like a firewall and there were other leaders, but now they have included almost all the features of next-generation security. Basically, it's a good product to work with."
"Cisco IOS Security is very robust and works very well."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The security is very good."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"Cisco is a scalable product, but it is expensive compared to other vendors."
"The routers, don't have like long-term tendency features, or higher availability features available for the IOS. It could also use a better user interface."
"Sometimes I find it difficult to manage. Some configurations are difficult for new engineers, for example."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see support for the 100BT and 7000 models."
"I think setup could be one area for improvement, because sometimes we don't have people inside so we have to move to the place."
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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 IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0. 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 IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense.
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