Cisco Defense Orchestrator vs Fortinet FortiGate Cloud comparison

Cisco and Fortinet are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. Cisco is ranked #14, while Fortinet is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3. Cisco holds a 1.2% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Fortinet’s 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.

Cisco Defense Orchestrator

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Cisco Defense Orchestrator compete in network security management. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has an edge in pricing and support, while Cisco Defense Orchestrator offers a more comprehensive feature set for enterprise needs.

Features: Fortinet FortiGate Cloud offers centralized management, automated security policy enforcement, and detailed analytics. Cisco Defense Orchestrator provides advanced integration capabilities, real-time threat intelligence, and extensive policy control.

Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could enhance integration with third-party apps, improve interface design, and increase data storage options. Cisco Defense Orchestrator may benefit from simplified setup procedures, more intuitive navigation, and reduced complexity for non-expert users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is straightforward to deploy with reliable support. Cisco Defense Orchestrator offers effective deployment backed by extensive documentation and comprehensive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiGate Cloud provides cost-effective solutions with quick ROI for smaller deployments. Cisco Defense Orchestrator justifies its higher cost with enhanced capabilities and long-term value for extensive security management.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Defense Orchestrator

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of Cisco Defense Orchestrator is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is 5.4%, up from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewall Security Management

Featured Reviews

Vivek Balaji

Technical Director - Cyber Security at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Useful guides, excellent support, integration could improve

Cisco Defense Orchestrator has useful guides for the steps that need to follow by users Cisco Defense Orchestrator can improve by providing more support for third-party security components. I have been using Cisco Defense Orchestrator for approximately eight months. The Cisco Defense…

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OcheEluma

Vice President of Infrustructure at Core Technologies Limited

Cost-effective platform with valuable security management functionality

I use the product as a security and networking gateway. I have deployed instances in Azure and AWS as virtual appliances, and my main use cases are for connecting VPNs, routing, and securing connections between the outside and inside of the environment The platform's most helpful features for…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is being able to do centralized upgrades on the ASAs. We can select all of those ASAs, and say, "Upgrade these ASAs at this scheduled time." It will copy down the ASA image, ASDM image, and then do the upgrade and failovers, and then put it all back into service as required at a scheduled time. It automates that process for us."

"There are a lot of templates that are already built-in. They give you quick-to-create and quick-to-apply policies that are typically a little more complicated for people."

"The most valuable feature is the Intrusion prevention."

"For this product, they are very uncharacteristically interested in resolving whatever issue the customer reports. They're really attentive, and they address whatever we bring up as quickly as they can. That's been a very positive aspect of the product."

"The ability to do operations on multiple firewalls at once is valuable because it saves time and mental effort. The solution's ability to make bulk changes makes it very convenient to manage things at once on multiple targets."

"The most valuable feature is that you can push one policy or one rule out to several devices at a time."

"We use a lot of image upgrades. We take some 20 devices and then we update everything at once, including the policies. We apply policies for groups. For certain groups, like anti-viruses, we send out policies and apply them to every single device. It's really easy and simple."

"This product provides excellent centralized device controls and reporting."

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"The hardware is reliable, and their support is excellent."

"The tool's GUI is user-friendly."

"It's user-friendly."

"The main feature of FortiGate Cloud is that you don't need open ports for remote administration or management of FortiGate."

"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are ease of use and the simplicity of maintenance and configuration. Additionally, the modularity of the solution is very easy to handle, it is convenient."

"The most valuable FortiGate Cloud feature is logging. It's there seven days a week, and there is no hard limit on logs or size restrictions. This much capacity will show up for that seven days. FortiGate Cloud offers many other valuable features like Fortinet Secure Gateway, SASE, and the Fortinet Security Fabric."

"The functionality of the solution is excellent."

"Fortinet products are just as good as any other competitor, with better management capabilities."

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Cons

"The main thing that would useful for us would the logging and monitoring. I have to check it out, to get the beta, because I don't have access to them... I wanted CDO to be a central place so where I could do everything but right now I don't think that's possible. I really don't want to go back and forth between this and FMC. Maybe the logging portion, when I look at it, will give me some similarities."

"I've found dozens of bugs over the year we've been using it. The more I use it for different things, the more problems I find... Most of the problems have to do with the user interface. A lot of thought and work has gone into the back-end component to make the product do what it's intended to do, but the way it is presented for use hasn't gotten nearly as much thought to make it smart and bug-free."

"They can centralize all products and provide a correlation about an incident and the response. They can also provide an on-premises solution. Currently, Cisco Defense Orchestrator is just for cloud deployments, not for on-premises deployments. Customers have to manage it on the cloud. We are based in Vietnam, and most of the customers here prefer to have on-premises deployments. Customers, especially from banking and government sectors, do not prefer to do anything on the cloud. Some of the small enterprises use the cloud."

"There could be some slight improvements to navigation. In some of the navigation you've got to go back to be able to get into where you need to be once you've made a change. If I make a change, I've then got to go back to submit and send the change."

"It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances."

"It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily."

"I'd like CDO to be the one-stop-shop where we could do all the configurations easily. It would be nice, for ASA upgrades, if we could do them from a central repository and not have to reach out to Cisco. That would be a definite plus."

"When logging into the device, we sort of had problems with it staying in sync. If somebody made a change onsite, it wouldn't do an automatic sync. It would have to wait, as you would have to do a manual sync up."

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"Reporting is an area that can be enhanced."

"I would like to see more reporting from the analysis improved in the future."

"If you need to scale, you do need to trade up to a new Fortinet solution."

"The new versions of the tool sometimes have bugs, and so we often have to spend a lot of time fixing issues in the solution. I want the patches offered by the product to be improved."

"I would like to see better integration with other technologies."

"The solution could improve by having a Russian interface."

"For improvement, I'd like to see basic endpoint security management integrated into the firewall with just a license addition."

"If more products convert their configuration to Fortinet configuration, it will be easy for migration."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is about a $100 per year for an ASA 5506 firewall, and from there it keeps going up if you have a bigger box. For example, the 5516 is $200 to $300 per year."

"If you compare to what is available on the market, they are in the same range with respect to pricing."

"I work with a lot of clients, and the price or value of the Cisco Defense Orchestrator can vary from one client to another. If you have a lot of Cisco solutions, the price of the Cisco Defense Orchestrator is justified. Whereas if you have some security components from other vendors, such as Check Point or Palo Alto. This solution would be a pretty expensive proposition considering that they don't integrate with them well."

"It is covered under the CIsco Enterprise License Agreement (ELA). So, it is licensed and ours."

"After our free trial was done we got a subscription for three years and it was under $3,000 or so. It's part of the EA we already paid for, so I don't know what it would be if it was a la carte."

"It's around £500 per unit for a three-year license."

"Unlike other firewalls, the cost of Fortinet FortiGate is low, and the functionality is nearly identical, which is why we chose it."

"The price of FortiGate Cloud is generally cheaper than other similar products."

"I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is cheaper than VMware and Cisco in the Bangladeshi market. Its pricing is reasonable."

"The tool's pricing is cheap."

"As with us, our customers need not pay for a license. One brings one's own."

"The costs are reasonable."

"The price was more affordable compared to other models and brands we considered."

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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

The pricing is on par with other cloud providers. FortiGate Cloud is priced similarly to other providers, however, we still need FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

All Fortinet products have many security flaws, and new versions often have large security holes. The integration process takes a long time for failovers between firewalls since it uses the Azure A...

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CDO

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Overview

Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) is a cloud-based management solution designed to ensure streamlined and consistent security policies across the Cisco security portfolio. Specifically tailored to manage all Cisco Secure Firewall form factors (running either ASA or Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software), CDO offers real-time visibility and troubleshooting capabilities, effectively enhancing overall network security.

CDO addresses the challenges of migration, supporting transitions from on-premises to cloud environments and facilitating the shift from ASA to FTD configurations. As organizations embark on their cloud adoption journey, CDO simplifies provisioning workflows for remote branches, reduces operational expenditures related to inventory management, and offers scalability for multi-cloud deployments.

FortiCloud can help with your wireless and security challenges in a number of ways. Our solution addresses common IT difficulties including time-consuming provisioning, high investment costs, complex management, vulnerability to advanced threats, and the need to easily scale with growth.

Sample Customers

Insurance Company of British Columbia, Shawmut

Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data

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