We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The web interface was easy for me. The configuration is logical, so it's easy to use and easy to understand how to protect, how to open a port, how to manage and how to route a device. That's why I prefer Cisco. It's robust and I never have issues with the hardware. That's why I choose Cisco and not another vendor."
"The GUI is among the most valuable features,"
"VPN load balancing has been particularly essential for my connections to integrate via multiple time zones."
"The setup was straightforward. I was happy with the configuration and deployment of the solution, as it was quick."
"The content filtering is good."
"A good intrusion prevention system and filtering."
"The product offers good scalability."
"Being able to determine our active users vs inactive users has led us to increased productivity through visibility. Also, if an issue was happening with our throughput, then we wouldn't know without research. Now, notifications are more proactively happening."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"I like the tool's WildFire feature."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"Palo Alto firewalls are scalable enough. We have about 110 employees in our company, and we are about to expand to 130."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"Palo Alto has an approach that makes the configuration easier not only for the customers but also for the IT help for the customers."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"Backup can be improved."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"Our latest experience with a code upgrade included a number of bugs and issues that we ran into. So more testing with their code, before it hits us, would help."
"Most of the features don't work well, and some features are missing as well."
"There may have been one or two incidences of malicious threats."
"The stability is not the best."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"We would like to see MS Word BPM as a feature."
"Lacks a good graphical user interface."
"Multiple WAN connections: Even though you can implement more than one interface to outside connections, it is lacking on load balances, etc."
"In the past, we've had trouble with Palo Alto's application filtering not getting it right. I would not be recommending layer 7 application filtering yet."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"They could improve by providing more features in the solution."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"The tool needs to improve integration with more products from other vendors. I would like the product to add threat intelligence features as well."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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