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."The security fabric is excellent."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The initial setup was completely straightforward."
"I haven't had any major problems so I haven't had to open a ticket with technical support."
"Collaboration with other Cisco products such as ISE and others is the most valuable feature."
"Previously, our customers had to always utilize hand-to-hand delivery. Now, they are able to move completely to a secure digital method. They use a strictly dark fiber optics connection from a central location to the endpoint."
"When it comes to the integration among Cisco tools, we find it easy. It's a very practical integration with other components as well."
"Beats sophisticated cyber attacks with a superior security appliance."
"The most valuable features are the IPsec VPN and web filtering."
"Stability, high availability of services, and very high MTBU were the most valuable features for me."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"Palo Alto's App-ID is what differentiates it from other competitors."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"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."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"The UI could be improved."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"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."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"This is an older product and has reached end-of-life."
"On the VPN side, Firepower could be better. It needs more monitoring on VPNs. Right now, it's not that good. You can set up a VPN in Firepower, but you can't monitor it."
"The only con that I have really seen with it is the reporting structure. FirePOWER is good. It has been a great help because, before that, it was not good at all."
"The ASA needs to incorporate the different modules you have to integrate to achieve UTM functions, especially for small businesses."
"Usually, the customers are satisfied, but I am going to recommend that all clients upgrade to FirePOWER management. I want Cisco to improve the feature called anti-spam. We use a Cisco only email solution, that's why we need the anti-spam on email facility."
"The user interface for the Firepower management console is a little bit different from traditional Cisco management tools. If you look at products we already use, like Cisco Prime or other products that are cloud-based, they have a more modern user interface for managing the products. For Firepower, the user interface is not very user-friendly. It's a little bit confusing sometimes."
"Its configuration through GUI as well as CLI can be improved and made easier."
"It is my understanding that they are in the process of discontinuing this device."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"They could improve by providing more features in the solution."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 28 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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