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."Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"Previously, anyone in the organization would see any data point in the wall. They could just go and connect their machine with that data point and could access the network. But now, even if someone came and tried that, they will not be given access."
"The technical is excellent."
"The technical support is good."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The solution is stable."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"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 solution is easy to use."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"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."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"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."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The configuration and reporting interfaces need a lot of improvement. It needs to be more accessible forsolide without a strong technical background. If you had a simplified dashboard, the lower-level techs could manage the solution and provide services. Cisco IOS Security requires someone who is highly trained to operate it."
"I think they should bring back remote VPN for users."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"An area for improvement in Cisco IOS Security is the performance because it's not as stable sometimes. There's also some latency in the solution, which could be improved. Cisco IOS Security integrates with other solutions, but you'll encounter many errors after integration, so this is another area for improvement. I'd like to see enhanced performance and a simplified setup in the next version of Cisco IOS Security."
"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."
"I would like upgrading iOS to be a bit easier."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Cisco very slowly introduces and implements the products, unlike other brands."
"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."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"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."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
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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