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Cisco Firepower 4100 Series vs. Fortinet FortiGate

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Firepower 4100 Series’ 1-rack-unit size is presented by the vendodr as ideal at the Internet edge and in high-performance environments. They further state that it shows what’s happening on your network, detects attacks earlier so you can act faster, and reduces management complexity.N/A

    FortiGate

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AFortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesFortiGate
    Editions & Modules
    Firepower 4100
    50,000-250,000
    per appliance
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesFortiGate
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesFortiGate
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
    As I mentioned before, the Fortigates have better failover. I think the Cisco interface is easier to use that that of the FortiGate. My only criticism would be that with multiple CLIs, it can get a bit confusing when you are trying to configure something or troubleshoot from …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
    Cisco Firepower 4100 Series deployment is straightforward and easy to implement. It is also can support high availability and able to achieve redundancy. Besides, firmware upgrade is quite simple and the process does not take much effort as the upgrade will be automatically …
    Incentivized
    Fortinet
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesFortiGate
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Firepower 4100 Series and Fortinet FortiGate
    Feature
    Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    Fortinet FortiGate
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.04 Ratings8.638 Ratings
    Visualization Tools8.04 Ratings8.538 Ratings
    Content Inspection8.03 Ratings9.439 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls8.04 Ratings9.040 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP10.03 Ratings9.039 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console9.04 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging8.04 Ratings7.440 Ratings
    VPN10.04 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    High Availability10.04 Ratings9.535 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection10.04 Ratings9.538 Ratings
    Proxy Server5.52 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesFortiGate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)