We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"I like that Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall is reliable. Support is also good."
"Firepower NGFW has improved my organization in several ways. Before, we were trying to stamp out security threats and issues, it was a one-off type of way to attack it. I spent a lot of manpower trying to track down the individual issues or flare-ups that we would see. With Cisco's Firepower Management, we're able to have that push up to basically one monitor and one UI and be able to track that and stop threats immediately. It also gives us a little more granularity on what those threats might be."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Firewall is its ease of configuration and that it's scalable for firewalls and VPNs."
"VPN load balancing has been particularly essential for my connections to integrate via multiple time zones."
"On the network side, where you create your rules for allowing traffic — what can come inside and what can go out — that works perfectly, if you know what you want to achieve. It protects you."
"I like all of the features."
"The VPN feature is the most valuable to us because it accomplishes the task well. We're able to do everything we need to do."
"If you have a solution that is creating a script and you need to deploy many implementations, you can create a script in the device and it will be the same for all. After that, you just have to do the fine tuning."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"This is a very reliable firewall and we have never had problems with it."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"Palo Alto has a unique solution for DNS security, which is very good."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The one thing that the ASAs don't have is a central management point. We have a lot of our environments on FTD right now. So, we are using a Firewall Management Center (FMC) to manage all those. The ASAs don't really have that, but they are easy to use if you physically go into them and manage them."
"Sometimes, it is not easy to troubleshoot. You need to know where to go. It took me quite awhile. It's like, "Okay, if it doesn't go smoothly here, then go find the documentation." Once you do it, it is not so bad. However, it is sometimes a steep learning curve on the troubleshooting part of it."
"The price and SD-WAN capabilities are the areas that need improvement."
"The stability could be better because we have a lot of issues with the stability of Cisco Firepower."
"The product's user interface is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Some individuals find the setup and configuration challenging."
"I wish the Cisco interface was not so granular. Check Point was easier to create specific rules than with ASAv."
"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could offer an open interface to other security products so that we could easily connect to our own open industry standard."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"I would like to see the threat intelligence capability integrated with other vendors such as Cisco and Forcepoint."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"The tool needs to improve integration with more products from other vendors. I would like the product to add threat intelligence features as well."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"The product should get frequent updates allowing us to add new signatures."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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