We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"Cisco products are very secure and integrate easily with other devices."
"The solution is stable."
"I've found their network routing to be very good."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"The capabilities for scalability with this product are huge"
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"The solution can scale well."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The pricing could always be better."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"While Cisco IOS Security is stable and scalable, I would like to see it improved to be even better."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Cisco is a scalable product, but it is expensive compared to other vendors."
"I think they should bring back remote VPN for users."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve its security features. There are competitors that have some additional security features, such as Fortinet FortiGate. Additionally, there should be better synchronization with Cisco IOS Security and other vendors, and improved AI features would be beneficial."
"We cannot directly upgrade the system. The tool's deployment is also very difficult in legacy environments. The tool needs to have bigger ports as well."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"Most of their features are meant for Cisco. You cannot integrate them with any other vendor."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
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Cisco IOS Security is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 14th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiOS, Meraki MX, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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