We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"An efficient, easy to deploy and dependable firewall solution."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"The stability of the product is good."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"With the FMC and the FirePOWERs, the ability to quickly replace a piece of hardware without having to have a network outage is useful. Also, the ability to replace a piece of equipment and deploy the config that the previous piece of equipment had is pretty useful."
"It's quite a capable box for UTM."
"I have experience with URL filtering, and it is very good for URL filtering. You can filter URLs based on the categories, and it does a good job. It can also do deep packet inspection."
"Cisco ASA Firewall is a well known product. They're always updating it, and you know what they're doing and that it works."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"I was just trying to learn how this product actually operates and one thing that I see from internal processing is it does fire-walling and then sends it to the IPS model and any other model that needs to be performed. For example, content checking or filtering will be done in a field processing manner. That is something that causes delays in the network, from a security perspective. That is something that can be improved upon. Palo Alto already has implemented this as a pilot passed processing. So they put the same stream of data across multiple modules at the same time and see if it is giving a positive result by using an XR function. So, something similar can be done in the Cisco Firepower. Instead of single processing or in a sequential manner, they can do something similar to pile processing. Internal function that is something that they can improve upon."
"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."
"It could also use a reporting dashboard."
"It could use a web-based portal for VPN. Earlier they had it in the ASA model, but currently they don't have it."
"Critical bugs need to be addressed before releasing the version."
"The ASA has become a bit old and needs updating."
"The most valuable features of the product are the VPN and the NextGen firewall features such as application control, URL filtering, etc."
"I haven't seen any feature that will allow me direct authentication for a VPN solution."
Earn 20 points
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] writes "User-Friendly, improves security, and gives me more control over my VoIP". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is most compared with .
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