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Product	FortiGate Secure SD-WAN by Fortinet View product	Cisco Secure Firewall by Cisco View product
Overview
What it is	Shortlisting SD-WAN tools? FortiGate Secure SD-WAN by Fortinet brings application-aware routing and SD-WAN rules, with cloud deployment. See strengths and alternatives.	Cisco Secure Firewall from Cisco focuses on perimeter threat defense. Key capabilities: URL filtering. Compare it with the leading Firewall alternatives.
Product type	Secure software-defined wide area networking solution	Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) & Threat Defense
Best for	Enterprise, SMB, Financial services, Healthcare, Government, Education, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology, Service providers	Cross-industry, Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Retail
Pricing
Pricing model	Contact Vendor	Contact Vendor
Free trial	Free trial: no	Free trial: no
Deployment
Deployment options	Cloud	CloudOn-Premise
Deployment details	FortiGate physical, virtual and cloud deployments using FortiOS; FortiGate physical, virtual and cloud deployments using FortiOS	Hardware appliance; Virtual appliance; Cloud-native; Hardware appliances (Firewall 1000/3100/4200 series); Virtual FTDv (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI); Containerized CNF
Data residency	Depends on deployment, service region, cloud architecture and customer configuration; verify the applicable Fortinet service/region	On-premises data retention / Cloud control region-specific hosting
Key features
What it offers	Application-aware routing SD-WAN rules Link steering Performance monitoring Secure overlays Integrated firewall IPS VPN	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
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	Hardware applianceVMware ESXiMicrosoft Hyper-VKVMNutanix AHVAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud+2 more	On-premises hardwareAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudVMware ESXiKVM
Compliance	Supports security controls used in common regulated environmentsexact certifications depend on product, model, release and deployment	FIPS 140-2/3, Common Criteria (NDcPP), USGv6, SOC 2, ISO 27001
Integrations & coverage
Integrations	FortiGateFortiManagerFortiAnalyzerFortiSASEFortiAuthenticatorFortiAPFortiSwitch	Cisco Security Cloud ControlCisco ISECisco Secure WorkloadCisco XDRCisco TalosSplunkMicrosoft Sentinel
Industries	EnterpriseSMBFinancial servicesHealthcareGovernmentEducation+4 more	Cross-industryGovernmentFinancial ServicesHealthcareEnergyManufacturing+1 more
Regions	GlobalAvailability varies by product, deployment and service region	Global
Vendor
Company	Fortinet	Cisco
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California, USA	San Jose, California, USA
Company size	10,000+	80,000+
Founded	2000	1984

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

by Fortinet

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Cisco Secure Firewall

by Cisco

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Overview

What it is

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Shortlisting SD-WAN tools? FortiGate Secure SD-WAN by Fortinet brings application-aware routing and SD-WAN rules, with cloud deployment. See strengths and alternatives.

Cisco Secure Firewall

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

Product type

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Secure software-defined wide area networking solution

Cisco Secure Firewall

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) & Threat Defense

Best for

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

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

Cisco Secure Firewall

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

Pricing

Pricing model

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Contact Vendor

Cisco Secure Firewall

Contact Vendor

Free trial

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Cisco Secure Firewall

Deployment

Deployment options

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Cloud

Cisco Secure Firewall

CloudOn-Premise

Deployment details

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

FortiGate physical, virtual and cloud deployments using FortiOS; FortiGate physical, virtual and cloud deployments using FortiOS

Cisco Secure Firewall

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

Data residency

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

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

Cisco Secure Firewall

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

Key features

What it offers

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Application-aware routing
SD-WAN rules
Link steering
Performance monitoring
Secure overlays
Integrated firewall
IPS
VPN

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

Platform & access

API access

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Cisco Secure Firewall

Single sign-on (SSO)

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Cisco Secure Firewall

Role-based access (RBAC)

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Cisco Secure Firewall

Multi-tenant

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Cisco Secure Firewall

Mobile app

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Cisco Secure Firewall

Supported platforms

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

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

Cisco Secure Firewall

On-premises hardwareAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudVMware ESXiKVM

Compliance

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

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

Cisco Secure Firewall

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

Integrations & coverage

Integrations

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

FortiGateFortiManagerFortiAnalyzerFortiSASEFortiAuthenticatorFortiAPFortiSwitch

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco Security Cloud ControlCisco ISECisco Secure WorkloadCisco XDRCisco TalosSplunkMicrosoft Sentinel

Industries

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

EnterpriseSMBFinancial servicesHealthcareGovernmentEducation+4 more

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cross-industryGovernmentFinancial ServicesHealthcareEnergyManufacturing+1 more

Regions

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

GlobalAvailability varies by product, deployment and service region

Cisco Secure Firewall

Global

Vendor

Company

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Fortinet

Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco

Headquarters

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

Sunnyvale, California, USA

Cisco Secure Firewall

San Jose, California, USA

Company size

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

10,000+

Cisco Secure Firewall

80,000+

Founded

FortiGate Secure SD-WAN

2000

Cisco Secure Firewall

1984