We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and GajShield Next Generation Firewall 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."Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It is a safe product."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The interface is very good."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"ASA 5505 and ASA 5506 are very powerful tools to use in a business environment, and provide a lot of security."
"Malicious URLs are being blocked."
"I work with Cisco and other partners, but the Cisco team is the best team in our country. When I call them, they always help us."
"In v9.8 you are able to do active/backup HA with ASAv (Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance) deployed on MS Azure."
"IPSec Tunnel and AnyConnect (of course), the context awareness was a good feature, but clumsy at the beginning. I think it's better now."
"This solution helped us to identify the key areas where we need to focus to block traffic that is malicious to our organization."
"We have been using a 5520 for seven years in our datacenter and we are satisfied by this version."
"The most valuable features of this solution are advanced malware protection, IPS, and IDS."
"GajShield has improved our mobile device-based connectivity."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is an easily scalable solution...The initial setup was very easy."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall's best feature is the network DLP."
"The solution's outcome is very high, and we often use it in a very high-traffic environment."
"Gajshiled's enterprise cloud and DLP-level features give it an advantage over other products."
"The most valuable feature of the GajShield Next Generation Firewall is the user-friendly settings, dashboards, and anti-threat protection. Additionally, the solution upgrades frequently which is good because we receive new features."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"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 Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Setting it up is not as intuitive as other more modern NGFWs."
"We are replacing ASA with FTD which offers many new features not available using ASA."
"In general, they can make it easier to manage the solutions. They can make it easier in terms of administration and provide a single tool for different firewalling solutions. They have different tools to manage different firewalls, such as Firepower or ASA. Sometimes, both are on the same thing. You have ASA with Firepower modules, so you manage some of the things via HTML, and then you manage some of the things via another management tool. It's not seamless."
"When we're looking at full-stack visibility, it can be difficult to get the right information out of Firepower."
"In NGFW, Cisco should be aligned with the new technology and inspection intelligence because Cisco is far behind in this pipeline."
"If they want to add better features to the current Cisco ASA, they can start by increasing the encryption. That is the only thing they need to improve."
"Integration aspects and traffic shaping need improvement."
"It is hard to collaborate with our filtered environment."
"Sometimes, we have to use SD-WAN support for the solution, which can be improved by adapting some features that will help our approach to network services."
"Gajshield can improve SD-WAN compatibility at an enterprise cloud level."
"We face issues with some configuration parts that we don't understand in the solution, and sometimes we face issues with the VPN connection."
"We raised a support ticket, and the project didn't get a proper response. There was a skill issue in TAC support."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall would be improved with the addition of a load-balancing feature."
"The firewall configuration and administration screens could use some improvement."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall could improve the flow of the settings. If somebody's using a Cisco firewall or any other brand and they want to use GajShield Next Generation Firewall the platform's UI is a bit different. If it was more similar to the others it would be better."
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Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while GajShield Next Generation Firewall is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 7 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while GajShield Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.8. 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 GajShield Next Generation Firewall writes "User-friendly settings, frequent updates, and responsive support". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas GajShield Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, WiJungle and Netgate pfSense. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. GajShield Next Generation Firewall report.
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