CheckPoint vs. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CheckPoint
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
CheckPoint is a digital access management and engagement system for venues. It automates and digitizes the registration, ticketing, and check-in process while enabling venues, vendors, and exhibitors to engage with guests directly to their phone's lock screen. CheckPoint is an event management tool for events, conferences, festivals, clubs, and more. The venue management solution boasts users among both the Oscars and Nasdaq.N/A
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center) are a firewall policy and intrusion detection appliance management system, providing an administrative nerve center for managing critical Cisco network security solutions. It provides complete and unified management over firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection. Easily go from managing a firewall to controlling applications to investigating and remediating…N/A
Pricing
CheckPointCisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CheckPointCisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
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Palo Alto Panorama is more user-friendly and provided faster policy deployment compared to Cisco FMC. Panorama is more stable compared to Cisco FMC. Cisco FMC is better when compared to CheckPoint Smart Console. Configuration and troubleshooting in CheckPoint Smart Console …
Features
CheckPointCisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Firewall Security Management
Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Product A and Product B
CheckPoint
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Ratings
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
8.1
21 Ratings
2% above category average
Policy planning and rule management00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
Automated Policy Orchestration00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
Device Discovery00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
Policy Compliance Auditing00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
Attack Path Simulation Testing00 Ratings7.516 Ratings
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
Vulnerability Scans00 Ratings8.516 Ratings
Firewall Rule Cleanup00 Ratings9.518 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CheckPointCisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Small Businesses
Whova
Whova
Score 9.5 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Whova
Whova
Score 9.5 out of 10
Palo Alto Panorama
Palo Alto Panorama
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Whova
Whova
Score 9.5 out of 10
Palo Alto Panorama
Palo Alto Panorama
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
CheckPointCisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
5.9
(2 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CheckPointCisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Likelihood to Recommend
Fobi AI
CheckPoint performs well as an internal firewall between network zones, providing policy control and deep inspection of internal traffic. It works well for a multi network setup like ours across multiple sites. It is however not a fast changing interface and time needs to be taken to perform changes. It's not a quick as other vendors
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Cisco
FMC is feature-rich and user-friendly. Cisco firewalls can run on standalone mode (FDM) but fewer features are supported on FDM. FMC is a must when working with Cisco Firewall. Migration from Cisco ASA to Cisco FTD is easy. There is a tool (FMT) that converts and imports the cisco IOS configuration file to FMC. FMC runs in VM or can be purchased as a physical appliance. The downside is that FMC is not quite fast and has bugs, especially when running in the older version 5x. and 6x.
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Pros
Fobi AI
  • Threat Prevention better than Fortinet
  • Granularity of security policy can be customized to the maximum
  • hardware performance is really good
  • Bugs are less as compared to other vendors
  • support is excellent
  • modules work as expected
  • Features can achieve out of box requirements
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Cisco
  • Great protection and security against the multiple digital virus attacks.
  • Provides detailed logs to track any threat and helps to secure the network promptly.
  • VPN service for remote access of important organizational applications.
  • Best management tool for controlling data and bandwidth resources.
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Cons
Fobi AI
  • In my experience, notifications are completely broken and non-functional
  • In my opinion, confusing UX for the cloud portal
  • Don't try and import 100's of endpoints when onboarding because it will create a mess
  • When installing the CP client you have to remove Microsoft Defender and if that fails, CheckPoint technical support goes, "Not my problem, sucks to be you!"
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Cisco
  • Stability when managing firewalls, we're having issues with Firewall 01 and Firewall 02 remaining in sync
  • Reporting when it comes to access control policy rules - there is no way to export a report of the rules easily. Using a custom Python script on the Cisco forums is the only way to easily export a CSV.
  • Support for policy and route-based site-to-site VPN was not available until 6.6.0 and later. This forced us to purchase ASAs to bridge that gap.
  • Dashboard reporting - when clicking a link for more information, nothing displays. Currently working with Cisco on the support case, which has been escalated.
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Likelihood to Renew
Fobi AI
Every dollar to CheckPoint is a wasted dollar.
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Cisco
We are very satisfied with SecureX and it's adaptive, active nature in protecting or data and systems. It's easy to administer, update, review notifications and update when necessary. Cisco's security practice fits into our needs and continues to evolve as global cyber events change. SecureX is easy to migrate to new cisco gear as we upgrade to newer models when supports ends on older gear. Enabling fast ROI during these capital expenditure projects.
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Usability
Fobi AI
the solution offer the most improvement about the usability by management more firewall in the same context or multicontext instead. The shared database allow to use one object for more than a package target of a cluster or more of gateways firewall. The management remain isolated from traffic pass through the firewall so the disruption is limited at minimum.
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Cisco
Overall usability is an eight for me because it is easy to manage the firewall policies and monitor the devices' health. The configurations are all done in the GUI which makes it more convenient and hassle free. You can also see the devices' health and the progress of the task thru its taskbar.
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Reliability and Availability
Fobi AI
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Cisco
Since moving to Cisco secure management center from firepower management center we've had no application issues, outages or any other problems. It's always been there for us and always provides us the necessary protection and notification when we need it. Been very happy with all of our Cisco systems over our tenure to date.
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Support Rating
Fobi AI
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Cisco
We have the direct support of the manufacturer through its service channels, the attention is 24/7, and the response time is acceptable. The support for this tool is almost nil. It all depends on the level of implementation is carried out so that it can fail and request collaboration. Anyway, the manufacturer backs the entire Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) solution.
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Implementation Rating
Fobi AI
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Cisco
Cisco secure firewall management center is easy to install, moderate to setup in conjunction with firewall hardware, and administration of policy changes afterwards is pretty straight forward. And flexible to add more advanced security configurations as needed. Cisco support website is pretty good for researching how to documentation too. Cisco secure firewall management center enables integration to SecureX - the cloud security protection service. And AMP which protects packet flow with real time analysis. Cisco secure fmc is the evolved name for cisco firepower management center so for those customers who have firepower this is a simple migration.
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Alternatives Considered
Fobi AI
The CheckPoint Firewall and Cisco ISR router serve different purposes. Our organisation uses both devices, but in different areas of the topology. The Cisco ISR is a remote device and its function is to relay information to our edge firewall, which then passes to our internal firewall (CheckPoint) to securely control traffic requests.
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Cisco
We are managing multiple customers having a large number of Cisco devices that need to be managed by a single platform. For that reason, we have selected the Cisco Firewall Management Center than checkpoint firewall management. It simplifies and automates newly bought cisco firewalls at remote branch offices to manage, configure and troubleshoot them.
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Return on Investment
Fobi AI
  • Smart console with lower operational overhead
  • Compliance with Hipaa, PCISSS and saving on compliance plenties
  • Less compatibility issues
  • licensing model is costlier at the beginning
  • Some modules require special training
  • False positives may occur
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Cisco
  • It's a very straightforward and user-friendly tool that has enhanced the total detection of malware and other threats t from intrusion into our network.
  • Provides stable deep network scanning, security visibility, and protection from unauthorized access.
  • The platform modular allows us to deploy across multiple budget cycles.
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ScreenShots

CheckPoint Screenshots

Screenshot of CheckPoint ecosystem includes the digital ticket using the wallet pass technology, a near-field communication tap device used for registration and check-in, and an admin portal used to provide real-time updates and analytics to make data-driven decisions.Screenshot of CheckPoint gives exhibitors, vendors and sponsors access to your guests' lock screen to send personalized notifications. Send urgent messages in real-time to increase security around your venue.Screenshot of Modernize your venue with CheckPoint's digital ticketing system that lives in your guests' mobile wallets. By using CheckPoint, improve your user experience by enabling a 100% contactless and automated system that gets your guests into your venues faster and smarter.Screenshot of Increase security around check-in with CheckPoint's automated and contactless system. CheckPoint is a sleek digital solution that condensed a multi-step process into one simple tap to speed up check-ins.