We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Stormshield Network Security 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 payment function for applications is good."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Filtering is the best feature."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is the graphical user interface, works out, and Cisco keeps it current."
"The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"With the pandemic, people began working from home. That was a pretty big move, having all our users working from a home. More capacity needed to be added to our remote VPN. ASA did this very well."
"The AnyConnect remote access VPN gives us an easy way to deploy remote working for our users."
"We are using the Cisco AnyConnect for our end-user VPN with the ASA."
"The most valuable feature that Cisco Firepower NGFW provides for us is the Intrusion policy."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"I like how you can configure the rules. There is the task for the rules and a task for the network configuration. It also provides SMD filtering, and it can be integrated with the active directory for the users, their mission, and the VPN configuration. We are here in Sudan, and Stormshield didn't work in Sudan for more than a decade. Stormshield is a very strong firewall and very easy to configure and maintain. I am just working with the firewall solution, and we don't have any other solutions like endpoint solutions or something like that."
"This solution is quick and easy to configure."
"The solution has improved my organization because I can see what traffic is happening and I can use it to block and prevent attacks."
"The most valuable features are the IPS, the firewall function, and the price."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"A very robust product."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The reports are very basic."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Other firewalls, upgrading is a very easy task; from the graphical user interface, you just need to import the firmware versions into it and install it. In this firewall, you need to have a third-party solution in both. It's a process. It's a procedure, a hard procedure, actually, so there is no straightforward procedure for upgrading."
"We don't have any serious problems. The firewall models that we have are quite legacy, and they have slower performance. We are currently investigating the possibility of migrating to next-generation firewalls."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more advanced antivirus features in the next release of this solution."
"The main problem we have is that things work okay until we upgrade the firmware, at which point, everything changes, and the net stops working."
"One feature I would like to see, that Firepower doesn't have, is email security. Perhaps in the future, Cisco will integrate Cisco Umbrella with Firepower. I don't see why we should have to pay for two separate products when both could be integrated in one box."
"I wish the Cisco interface was not so granular. Check Point was easier to create specific rules than with ASAv."
"Managing various product integrations, such as Umbrella, is challenging."
"This solution could be more granular and user-friendly."
"This solution has a big problem with web filtering and it needs to be improved."
"The product must improve its pricing."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
"With Stormshield, there are difficulties joining things, and it can be complex depending on the architecture."
"It could be better if it were more user-friendly. It's too complicated for us to use it. The price could be better as well."
"Improvement is needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer."
"The SD card could be more secure."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8. 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos UTM. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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