We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sonatype Repository Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is very flexible to use."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"Filtering is the best feature."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the access control list (ACL)."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to block almost all of the ports."
"There are some hiccups here and there, but compared to the technical support from other vendors, I have had the best experience with Cisco's technical support. I would rate them at nine out of ten."
"I think Cisco ASA Firewall is the most stable firewall solution."
"The management aspect of the product is very straightforward."
"The product's network and intrusion protection features are valuable. It also has rules and compliance features for security."
"Another thing that I like about Sonatype is that if you download something today, and five days from today it becomes vulnerable, it will notify you."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"I would like to see an IE version of the solution where it is ruggedized."
"You shouldn't have to use the ASDM to help manage the client."
"MSSP oriented interface: I would like a single console which would allow me to manage settings creating consistency across all customers."
"I think the ASA layer is thin. It's always Layer 3 or Layer 4 source controller and doesn't control the Layer 7 traffic. It's important, and you'll need an additional firewall."
"Managing various product integrations, such as Umbrella, is challenging."
"The graphical interface could be improved. From what I have seen, Fortinet, for example, has a nicer GUI."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"What I don't like is the lack of an option to pick up the phone and call someone for support. That is something they need to improve on. They need to have a professional services package, or they need to include that option with their services."
"The tool needs to improve its file systems. The product should also include zero test feature."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sonatype Repository Firewall is ranked 34th in Application Security Tools with 3 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sonatype Repository Firewall 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 Sonatype Repository Firewall writes "You will get clean code every time, and that's a great achievement". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sonatype Repository Firewall is most compared with JFrog Xray, Black Duck, GitHub, Sonatype Lifecycle and Veracode.
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