We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The technical support is great."
"The performance is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The solution is stable."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"Cisco IOS Security is a mature product with extensive capabilities, serving as the base for the defense layer. It offers good network visibility, which helps in rapid response through the Rapid Threat Containment feature. Its deployment and configuration are straightforward."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to deal with."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The scalability could be better."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Lacks training for new features."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Signatures and other critical definitions need to be updated more frequently."
"The solution’s setup process could be better."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve its security features. There are competitors that have some additional security features, such as Fortinet FortiGate. Additionally, there should be better synchronization with Cisco IOS Security and other vendors, and improved AI features would be beneficial."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"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."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ.
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