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Side-by-side comparison of Cisco Secure Firewall, FortiGate
Product	Cisco Secure Firewall by Cisco View product	FortiGate by Fortinet View product
Overview
What it is	Cisco Secure Firewall from Cisco focuses on perimeter threat defense. Key capabilities: URL filtering. Compare it with the leading Firewall alternatives.	FortiGate helps teams with network firewalling. Explore features like firewall, IPS and application control, cloud deployment and the closest Firewall competitors.
Product type	Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) & Threat Defense	Next-generation firewall and secure networking platform
Best for	Cross-industry, Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Retail	Enterprise, SMB, Financial services, Healthcare, Government, Education, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology, Service providers
Pricing
Pricing model	Contact Vendor	Contact Vendor
Free trial	Free trial: no	Free trial: no
Deployment
Deployment options	CloudOn-Premise	Cloud
Deployment details	Hardware appliance; Virtual appliance; Cloud-native; Hardware appliances (Firewall 1000/3100/4200 series); Virtual FTDv (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI); Containerized CNF	Physical appliance, virtual machine, cloud marketplace and FortiGate-as-a-Service; Physical appliance, virtual machine, cloud marketplace and FortiGate-as-a-Service
Data residency	On-premises data retention / Cloud control region-specific hosting	Depends on deployment, service region, cloud architecture and customer configuration; verify the applicable Fortinet service/region
Key features
What it offers	Snort 3 deep packet inspection Application visibility and control Hardware-accelerated crypto Encrypted traffic analytics Advanced malware defense URL filtering Dynamic network segmentation Perimeter threat defense	Firewall IPS Application control Antivirus SSL inspection VPN SD-WAN Web filtering
Platform & access
API access	API access: yes	API access: yes
Single sign-on (SSO)	SSO: yes	SSO: yes
Role-based access (RBAC)	RBAC: yes	RBAC: yes
Multi-tenant	Multi-tenant: yes	Multi-tenant: yes
Mobile app	Mobile app: no	Mobile app: no
Supported platforms	On-premises hardwareAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudVMware ESXiKVM	Hardware applianceVMware ESXiMicrosoft Hyper-VKVMNutanix AHVAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud+2 more
Compliance	FIPS 140-2/3, Common Criteria (NDcPP), USGv6, SOC 2, ISO 27001	Supports security controls used in common regulated environmentsexact certifications depend on product, model, release and deployment
Integrations & coverage
Integrations	Cisco Security Cloud ControlCisco ISECisco Secure WorkloadCisco XDRCisco TalosSplunkMicrosoft Sentinel	FortiManagerFortiAnalyzerFortiClientFortiAuthenticatorFortiNACFortiSandboxFortiGuardFortiSwitch+1 more
Industries	Cross-industryGovernmentFinancial ServicesHealthcareEnergyManufacturing+1 more	EnterpriseSMBFinancial servicesHealthcareGovernmentEducation+4 more
Regions	Global	GlobalAvailability varies by product, deployment and service region
Vendor
Company	Cisco	Fortinet
Headquarters	San Jose, California, USA	Sunnyvale, California, USA
Company size	80,000+	10,000+
Founded	1984	2000

Cisco Secure Firewall

by Cisco

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FortiGate

by Fortinet

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Overview

What it is

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco Secure Firewall from Cisco focuses on perimeter threat defense. Key capabilities: URL filtering. Compare it with the leading Firewall alternatives.

FortiGate

FortiGate helps teams with network firewalling. Explore features like firewall, IPS and application control, cloud deployment and the closest Firewall competitors.

Product type

Cisco Secure Firewall

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) & Threat Defense

FortiGate

Next-generation firewall and secure networking platform

Best for

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cross-industry, Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Retail

FortiGate

Enterprise, SMB, Financial services, Healthcare, Government, Education, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology, Service providers

Pricing

Pricing model

Cisco Secure Firewall

Contact Vendor

FortiGate

Contact Vendor

Free trial

Cisco Secure Firewall

FortiGate

Deployment

Deployment options

Cisco Secure Firewall

CloudOn-Premise

FortiGate

Cloud

Deployment details

Cisco Secure Firewall

Hardware appliance; Virtual appliance; Cloud-native; Hardware appliances (Firewall 1000/3100/4200 series); Virtual FTDv (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI); Containerized CNF

FortiGate

Physical appliance, virtual machine, cloud marketplace and FortiGate-as-a-Service; Physical appliance, virtual machine, cloud marketplace and FortiGate-as-a-Service

Data residency

Cisco Secure Firewall

On-premises data retention / Cloud control region-specific hosting

FortiGate

Depends on deployment, service region, cloud architecture and customer configuration; verify the applicable Fortinet service/region

Key features

What it offers

Cisco Secure Firewall

Snort 3 deep packet inspection
Application visibility and control
Hardware-accelerated crypto
Encrypted traffic analytics
Advanced malware defense
URL filtering
Dynamic network segmentation
Perimeter threat defense

FortiGate

Firewall
IPS
Application control
Antivirus
SSL inspection
VPN
SD-WAN
Web filtering

Platform & access

API access

Cisco Secure Firewall

FortiGate

Single sign-on (SSO)

Cisco Secure Firewall

FortiGate

Role-based access (RBAC)

Cisco Secure Firewall

FortiGate

Multi-tenant

Cisco Secure Firewall

FortiGate

Mobile app

Cisco Secure Firewall

FortiGate

Supported platforms

Cisco Secure Firewall

On-premises hardwareAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudVMware ESXiKVM

FortiGate

Hardware applianceVMware ESXiMicrosoft Hyper-VKVMNutanix AHVAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud+2 more

Compliance

Cisco Secure Firewall

FIPS 140-2/3, Common Criteria (NDcPP), USGv6, SOC 2, ISO 27001

FortiGate

Supports security controls used in common regulated environmentsexact certifications depend on product, model, release and deployment

Integrations & coverage

Integrations

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco Security Cloud ControlCisco ISECisco Secure WorkloadCisco XDRCisco TalosSplunkMicrosoft Sentinel

FortiGate

FortiManagerFortiAnalyzerFortiClientFortiAuthenticatorFortiNACFortiSandboxFortiGuardFortiSwitch+1 more

Industries

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cross-industryGovernmentFinancial ServicesHealthcareEnergyManufacturing+1 more

FortiGate

EnterpriseSMBFinancial servicesHealthcareGovernmentEducation+4 more

Regions

Cisco Secure Firewall

Global

FortiGate

GlobalAvailability varies by product, deployment and service region

Vendor

Company

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco

FortiGate

Fortinet

Headquarters

Cisco Secure Firewall

San Jose, California, USA

FortiGate

Sunnyvale, California, USA

Company size

Cisco Secure Firewall

80,000+

FortiGate

10,000+

Founded

Cisco Secure Firewall

1984

FortiGate

2000