Azure Firewall Manager vs. Cisco Defense Orchestrator

Azure Firewall manager is best suited where you have multiple firewalls, and we can manage it centrally in one dashboard. Less appropriate for small companies as it is a bit expensive.

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Cisco Defense Orchestrator is an ideal software to easily manage firewalls at the enterprise level, as well as to implement security policies that allow the corporate infrastructure to remain free of threats that can put at risk all the devices that are handled on a daily basis. For example, it is ideal for preventing network intrusions, since it has the ability to block malware and any suspicious activity. In addition, the fact that it is based on a single console provides the benefit of keeping all devices under view and thus preventing any threat in the simplest way.

• Security
• Firewall
• Traffic

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• Upgrade OS
• Manage changes at scale
• Group like configurations
• Clone configs for other firewalls
• Migrate from on prem to cloud

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• Bulk IP address fails, requires you to split it up smaller
• Firewall Rules dont always have good descriptions
• No Traffic Splitting

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• Better templates like pushing config. when a particular firewall checks in with CDO.
• Compliance checking for configurations would be great. For example: make sure http is shut and https is open.

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I give this score because I believe that Cisco Defense Orchestrator helps our company to be resilient, this is because this software is also focused on offering security resilience at the enterprise level, that is, through its features such as high visibility, acceleration of threat detection and response, simple management, and end-to-end protection. By having it, it is more feasible to avoid disasters or risks in the devices that are handled daily and of course avoid data loss and, given this, be able to recover quickly if something happens.

I believe that Cisco Defense Orchestrator is available when needed, this solution has allowed the security team to have better productivity thanks to the fact that their workflow is less intense because they can carry out their tasks with the help of this software, in addition to the presence If there is an error, they can be overcome quickly because their support team is efficient.

Cisco Defense Orchestrator is a software that is easy to implement, although knowledge is required for it, but if you do not have it, going to its valuable support team is very helpful. If done knowingly, this process can take less than two hours. Having a simple implementation is a valuable feature because it saves time and expense.

We Selected Azure Firewall Manager because of its reliable service and Security, which they provide across our network architecture.

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We used the on box management platform. This required API usage for automating things. It was not scalable and a lot of features are not there. There are platforms like manage engine, but they are not Cisco FP native and had limitations as well.

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• Externally hosted firewall.
• No cost having on Orem appliance.
• Cheaper as we only pay for what is use in Azure for it.

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• Much faster management.
• Can access firewall without having to go on site if the VPN tunnel is down.

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