Which is the better NGFW: Fortinet Fortigate or Cisco Firepower?

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2021-01-12T06:00:00Z

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Which is the better NGFW: Fortinet Fortigate or Cisco Firepower?

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I'm researching Firewalls. Which NGFW do you recommend between Fortinet Fortigate and Cisco Firepower NGFW?

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Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall

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David Storey

More than the products themselves and their capabilities, you must consider the support you get from their respective vendor.

In our case, we're a Cisco shop and have several Firepowers. We scan them for vulnerabilities or have FIPS as a requirement.

In some cases, the cipher settings for SSH or SSL are old and can't be updated to use ciphers that are a few years old.

Putting them in the FIPS mode can also create problems that Cisco isn't interested in fixing.

"Smart" licensing is also problematic as we don't technically allow the management plane of our infrastructure from accessing the public internet.

I'd recommend staying away from Firepowers.

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2021-09-20T17:45:55Z20 September 21

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Jayaprakash Bojanapu

Cisco Firepower is good

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2021-03-06T04:42:13Z06 March 21

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Fedayi Uzun · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-19T00:22:28Z

When you compare these
firewalls you can identify them with different features, advantages,
practices and usage at large.

In
my opinion, Fortinet would be the best option and l use Fortinet too.

To give more perspective, l'd like to present some detailed information.

Fortinet's Fortigate
firewalls offer strong security at a good price point, making them
one of the most popular firewall vendors and a frequent. The Fortinet
firewall is the most practical and easily managed firewall I've ever
seen in my life. People complain that firewall operation is often
impractical.

FortiGate firewalls are
purpose-built with security processors to enable the industry's best
threat protection and performance for SSL-encrypted traffic. By
providing granular visibility of applications, users, and IOT
devices, these appliances are designed to identify issues quickly and
intuitively.

By the way, Cisco has some
important benefits too:

Cisco
ASA firewalls offer superior protection from threats through CSC,
IPS and the like.

TCO
is reduced because of better pricing.

The
offered solutions deliver high performance levels, and can be scaled
to achieve 10+ Gbps.

New applications can
easily be deployed over secured layers.

Which is the better NGFW: Fortinet Fortigate or Cisco Firepower?

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