We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is stable."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"It is a safe product."
"The IP filter configuration for specific political and Static NAT has been most valuable."
"URL filtering is valuable."
"This solution has good security, and it's a good product. You can trust Cisco, and there's support as well, which is really good."
"Network segmentation is the most valuable feature."
"The user interface is very easy to manage and find rules. You can do object searches, which are very easy. Also, the logging is very simple to use. So, it is a lot easier to troubleshoot and find items inside the firewall."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"The most valuable feature that Cisco Firepower NGFW provides for us is the Intrusion policy."
"The most valuable feature is the access control list (ACL)."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiOS is great."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"The most important feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the IPS."
"FortiOS's most valuable feature is a next-generation firewall that can be used as the APT solution in advanced threat protection."
"For my organization, it has become much easier to scan the firewalls because the solution is more user-friendly than competitors."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"The user experience is great. The graphical user interface is also good."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Backup can be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"It seems very clunky and slow. I would like to be able to tune it to be a more efficient product."
"ASDM can be improved."
"The only drawback of the user interface is when it comes to policies. When you open it and click on the policies, you have to move manually left and right if you want to see the whole field within the cell. Checkpoint has a very detailed user interface."
"Managing various product integrations, such as Umbrella, is challenging."
"The product needs real-time logs to be able to monitor our services, so we can know if any our services have been blocked via the firewall or on the application side."
"The ASA needs to incorporate the different modules you have to integrate to achieve UTM functions, especially for small businesses."
"I think that the solution can be improved with the integration of application-centric infrastructure. It could be used to have better solutions in one box."
"The user interface is too complex for people who are not trained to or certified to engage with the product. The interface should be easier to use."
"The pricing of the product is too high."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"I would like to see fewer bugs. If you use the box with its basic features, the solution is straightforward and stable, but you can run into bugs when using newer features or in more complex use cases. They included a DNS filter as a new feature, and I had issues that required raising a ticket with customer support."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"There is no flexibility."
"Right now, all the features meet my requirements."
"A switch should be introduced."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. 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 Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Sangfor NGAF. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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