We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Application inspection, network segmentation, and encrypted traffic detection or encrypted traffic analysis (ETA) are valuable for our customers."
"You can also put everything into a nice, neat, little package, as far as configuration goes. I was formerly a command-line guy with the ASA, and I was a little nervous about dealing with a GUI interface versus a command line, but after I did my first deployment, I got a lot more comfortable with doing it GUI based."
"Being able to use it as a policy-based VPN is valuable. It's very easy to understand. It's very easy to troubleshoot."
"Valuable features include AnyConnect, double translations, and an independent IPS module."
"The product offers good scalability."
"Cisco ASA provides us with very good application visibility and control."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"Simple to deploy, stable."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Backup can be improved."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"There was an error in the configuration, related to our uplink switches, that caused us to contact technical support, and it took a very long time to resolve the issue."
"The product crashes. We have a cluster of firewalls and we regularly get failovers."
"Multiple WAN connections: Even though you can implement more than one interface to outside connections, it is lacking on load balances, etc."
"FirePOWER does a good job when it comes to providing us with visibility into threats, but I would like to see a more proactive stance to it."
"I have a lot of difficulties with the solution's Firewall Management Center (FMC) and the GUI. Neither is responsive enough and should be improved."
"Initial setup can be complex. It is complex. We have to set up ASA, SFR module, and FMC separately, which sometimes requires extensive troubleshooting, even for smaller issues."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"They should work on making it a little more intuitive for users and not quite as complex. Still, it's a good product."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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