We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The setup was straightforward. I was happy with the configuration and deployment of the solution, as it was quick."
"The primary benefits of using Cisco Secure solutions are time-saving, a robust API, and convenience for the security team."
"With Cisco, there are a lot of features such as the network map. Cisco builds the whole network map of the machines you have behind your firewall and gives you insight into the vulnerabilities and attributes that the host has. Checkpoint and Fortinet don't have that functionality directly on the firewall."
"All the features except IPS are valuable. IPS is not a part of my job."
"The most valuable feature is that it has the ability to divide the network into three parts; internal, external, and DMZ."
"The most valuable feature would be the IP blocking. It gets rid of things that you don't need in your environment."
"The most important point is the detection engine which is now part of the next-generation firewalls and which is supported by Cisco Talos."
"The most important feature is the VPN connection."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"It needs more available central management."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"The overall licensing structure could improve to make the solution better."
"It is hard to control the bandwidth of end-users with a Cisco Firewall. That is the main issue I've faced. I used Mikrotik for many years for this very reason. Mikrotik has the option to set a bandwidth restriction for a single IP or complete segments. Cisco should add this option to their firewall."
"One feature lacking is superior anti-virus protection, which must be added."
"Cisco is not cheap, however, it is worth investing in these technologies."
"There used to be information displayed about the packets in a module called Packet Flow, but it is no longer there."
"10Gb interfaces should be available on more models."
"When we talk about data centers, we are talking about 100 gig capacity or 400 gig capacity. When it comes to active-active solution clustering and resilience and performance, Cisco should look into these a little bit more."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with Nozomi Networks and OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security.
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