We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Illumio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"It can expand easily."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"We are able to filter a lot of traffic especially when a lot of the traffic is in layer 7."
"We use the product for firewalls."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The most valuable features of Cisco IOS Security are the plenty of functionality it provides, many people are IT certified the usage, and the user interface is good."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"We cannot directly upgrade the system. The tool's deployment is also very difficult in legacy environments. The tool needs to have bigger ports as well."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"I wish it would be more like the next generation firewall technology. There should be more selection between the application and filtering."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"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."
"In the security portfolio from Cisco, the issue is marketing. Cisco is still seen primarily as an enterprise network player rather than being acknowledged as a security vendor."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Illumio is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Illumio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
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