We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The next-generation firewall is great."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product is easy to use."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"We use Cisco IOS Security mostly for routers to route off the firewall. It's a next-generation device."
"The technical support is good."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"We use the product for firewalls."
"It's a good product. After the scan our internet works well. It scans our security posture."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"It's very configurable to adjust impact to systems."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"The solution shows us classic categories, including high, medium, and low risks. It also shows critical items, and that gives us the advantage of prioritizing things."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The support system could be improved."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"The company needs to make its solution more affordable to make it more accessible to larger markets. Otherwise, it's seen as an enterprise-level solution that small or medium-sized organizations can't afford and therefore they won't even look at it."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"The initial setup is complicated."
"Signatures and other critical definitions need to be updated more frequently."
"I think setup could be one area for improvement, because sometimes we don't have people inside so we have to move to the place."
"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."
"Cisco is an expensive firewall, so the pricing can be improved."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"When tested on Zero day, there were errors."
"Its integration with ServiceNow and other similar products is complicated and can be improved. It should also have virtual batching. They should support more standards and compliance requirements and more customizations. For policy compliance, they can add the standards required by the countries in the Middle East. Each country generates its own standards and frameworks, and those frameworks should be there in all products, not only in Qualys. The market here is huge, especially in the cybersecurity field. Qatar has a framework for Qatar 2022, and each and every company in the public or private sector has to follow the Qatar 2022 framework."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"The reporting and dashboards could improve in Qualys VM. However, they have improved since the previous versions."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"Endpoint stability and fault resolution could be improved."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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