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"Licensing is expensive compared to other solutions." "The cost is a big factor for us. This is why we are using it only in our restricted area. They are very much higher than their competitors in the market." "We paid about $7,000 for the Cisco firewall, plus another small Cisco router and the lead switch. It was under the combined license. It's a final agreement." "Watch out for hidden licensing and incredibly high annual maintenance costs." "I bought a license for three years and it was really affordable." "With AnyConnect, it depends on your license. It depends on the number of concurrent users you want to connect." "This solution might be expensive, but it is economical in the long run." "Some of our customers would be more likely to standardize on Cisco equipment if the cost was lower because a lot of people install cheap equipment." | "This solution is less expensive than FortiGate." "It is the cheapest product available. It's good if you have a low budget." "We pay for the service on a yearly basis. The last time we paid was in June, for a year. At the time, it was about $20,000." "Our licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis." "It's reasonably priced." | "This gateway is pretty cheap." More Zyxel Unified Security Gateway Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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| Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall, Cisco ASA NGFW, Cisco ASA, Adaptive Security Appliance, ASA, Cisco Sourcefire Firewalls, Cisco ASAv | Astaro | |
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Cisco ASA firewalls deliver enterprise-class firewall functionality with highly scalable and flexible VPN capabilities to meet diverse needs, from small/branch offices to high performance data centers and service providers. Available in a wide range of models, Cisco ASA can be deployed as a physical or virtual appliance. Flexible VPN capabilities include support for remote access, site-to-site, and clientless VPN. Also, select appliances support clustering for increased performance, VPN load balancing to optimize available resources, advanced high availability configurations, and more. Cisco ASAv is the virtualized version of the Cisco ASA firewall. Widely deployed in leading private and public clouds, Cisco ASAv is ideal for remote worker and multi-tenant environments. The solution scales up/down to meet performance requirements and high availability provides resilience. Also, Cisco ASAv can deliver micro-segmentation to protect east-west network traffic. Cisco firewalls provide consistent security policies, enforcement, and protection across all your environments. Unified management for Cisco ASA and FTD/NGFW physical and virtual firewalls is delivered by Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO), with cloud logging also available. And with Cisco SecureX included with every Cisco firewall, you gain a cloud-native platform experience that enables greater simplicity, visibility, and efficiency. Learn more about Cisco’s firewall solutions, including virtual appliances for public and private cloud. | The global network of highly skilled researchers and analysts, protecting businesses from known and emerging malware - viruses, rootkits and spyware. | ZyWALL USG Series delivers high-access quality to help businesses satisfy the demand for always-online communications. For internal deployments, the ZyWALL USG Series provides active-passive High-Availability (HA) service to support device or connection failover. With Device HA Pro service, the ZyWALL USG Series also supports instant failover, so connections are always maintained when a failover event occurs. For external deployments, the ZyWALL USG Series features multi- WAN load balancing/failover and a comprehensive mobile broadband USB modem support list for WAN backup operations. The ZyWALL USG Series also supports IPSec load balancing and failover, providing additional resilience for mission-critical VPN failover with VTI Interface deployments. ZyWALL USG110/210/310 thoroughly protects networks with industry-leading firewall, Anti-Malware/ Virus, Anti-Spam, Content Filtering, IDP, and Application Patrol functionality. Regulate unauthorized use of Web applications over your network, such as Facebook, Google apps, and Netflix, among others. Zyxel security measures are enhanced with SSL Inspection, blocking threats hidden in SSL-encrypted connections while facilitating deeper policy enforcement. Furthermore, newly improved Content Filtering 2.0 enhances HTTPS Domain Filter, Browser SafeSearch, and Geo IP Blocking for an array of security enhancements to ensure clean Web connections. |
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| There are more than one million Adaptive Security Appliances deployed globally. Top customers include First American Financial Corp., Genzyme, Frankfurt Airport, Hansgrohe SE, Rio Olympics, The French Laundry, Rackspace, and City of Tomorrow. | One Housing Group | Information Not Available |
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Financial Services Firm17% Comms Service Provider14% Manufacturing Company10% Computer Software Company7% Comms Service Provider34% Computer Software Company22% Media Company5% Government4% | Manufacturing Company17% Retailer9% Comms Service Provider9% Healthcare Company9% Comms Service Provider37% Computer Software Company19% Media Company6% Government5% | Comms Service Provider48% Computer Software Company16% Manufacturing Company5% Non Profit4% |
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Small Business35% Midsize Enterprise26% Large Enterprise39% Small Business28% Midsize Enterprise21% Large Enterprise51% | Small Business59% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise17% Small Business49% Midsize Enterprise38% Large Enterprise13% | No Data Available |
Find out what your peers are saying about Sophos, WatchGuard, Cisco and others in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Updated: January 2021.
456,966 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 15 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 1 review. Sophos UTM is rated 8.6, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "Has a solid state hard drive and can boot in less than sixty seconds". 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". Sophos UTM is most compared with pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Meraki MX, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with pfSense, Fortinet FortiOS, WatchGuard Firebox, SonicWall NSA and Untangle NG Firewall.
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