We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Rapid7 Metasploit based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The technical support is great."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I'm able to transfer data over internet network security. With the GRE I'm able to transfer data within one bunch to another bunch in a public way, like the internet. The communication is encrypted and is private. It gives me added privacy."
"The technical is excellent."
"Cisco IOS Security is very robust and works very well."
"The solution is stable."
"All of the features are great."
"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."
"The reporting on the solution is good."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"I don't have any other tools like it, and I always use it when I'm doing a pen test. Metasploit is a great solution for penetration testing,"
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"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."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"There's a technology called SD-WAN that we would like to see. We are unable to handle multiple connections or to automatically load balance. I would like to have a feature that enables us to automatically prepare for load balancing."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see support for the 100BT and 7000 models."
"Rapid7 Metasploit could be made easier for new users to learn."
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
"We'd like them to offer better coverage of malware."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"At the time I was using it, the graphical user interface needed some improvements."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 46 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 14th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "A mature product with good integration capabilities, however, it needs to be more affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Directly exploit vulnerabilities, is stable, and scalable". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Rapid7 InsightVM, Acunetix and Nucleus.
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