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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Firepower® 1000 Series for small to medium-size businesses and branch offices is a family of four threat-focused Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) security platforms designed to deliver business resiliency through superior threat defense. The vendor provides that they offers exceptional sustained performance when advanced threat functions are enabled. The 1000 Series’ throughput range addresses use cases from the small office, home office, remote branch office to the Internet edge. The…N/A

    Cloudflare Network Firewall

    N/AN/ACloudflare Network Firewall is a firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) offering for on-premises networks and WANs. Instead of backhauling traffic through firewall appliances, filter layer 3 and 4 traffic with the Cloudflare network, which has locations in over 330 cities throughout the world. Cloudflare Network Firewall runs everywhere in Cloudflare’s global network, letting you inspect layer 3 / 4 traffic no matter where branch offices are located. It also runs in-line with…N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesCloudflare Network Firewall
    Editions & Modules
    Firepower 1000
    1,000-5,000
    per appliance
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesCloudflare Network Firewall
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesCloudflare Network Firewall
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
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    Features
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesCloudflare Network Firewall
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Firepower 1000 Series and Cloudflare Network Firewall
    Feature
    Cisco Firepower 1000 Series
    9.0
    36 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Cloudflare Network Firewall
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection9.533 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls8.536 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console9.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging9.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability10.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection9.531 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesCloudflare Network Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (32 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesCloudflare Network Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    I think it is well suited for smaller companies or (as in our case) extension to a central system with higher performance. My personal guess is, that it can be quite annoying with those delays in bigger environments, when 20 or more devices needed to be managed. From the point of security, support and updates it works quite good and seem to have no downsides.
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    Cloudflare
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • My organization is all Cisco and wants to stay in the Cisco life cycle, Firepower 1000 series is great for small to medium-size office.
    • Very robust enterprise-grade security solution with updated threat features to handle any current and upcoming threats. The solution is backed by Cisco to ensure constant security updates. Integrated AnyConnect remote client VPN is a big plus to allow for secure remote workers access. Easier to set up a site to site VPN due to the large user base and case studies published on integrating to other manufacturer solutions.
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    Cloudflare
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • ACLS in gui are PIA cant see object details
    • Objects in ACLs dont show IP addresses
    • Have to renames every object to name+ip to make acl GUI useable
    • Speed to data can use improvement.
    • Health warnings should allow you to resolve you have to dig n search in some cases.
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    Cloudflare
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    It is quite good, robust and reliable but not always so easy to manage and configure. The tools could be improved and the price is not low for an entry level firewall
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    Cloudflare
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Firepowers are secure, reliable, central management and configuration is easy and they fit in well with our existing Cisco infrastructure. Good feature set and support. Good management and control with chassis manager and central control with additional Firepower Management Centre.
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    Cloudflare
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Has not let me down yet.
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    Cloudflare
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    Performance
    Cisco
    Great performance even on the lower end model of the series. You can push a lot of traffic through these devices without much performance impact. If you decide you want to inspect encrypted traffic however, you may take a big hit on the cpu and memory of the box, but they still manage to keep up even with all the bells and whistles turned on.
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    Cloudflare
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    I have had troubles with Firepower Management Center and the FTD's in the past. Sticking to a Gold Star image and upgrading when the "bugs" are fixed is great. That still doesn't mean you are left vulnerable though. The extra features are just not enabled yet. Great product and calling support is readily available for any issue.
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    Cloudflare
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Utilize the new FMC cloud which is available in Cisco Defense Orchestrator.
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    Cloudflare
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    The Cisco Firepower 1000 Series differs manily in that the Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is intended for small to medium sized networks, but still providing the very strong IPS troughputs. Also it is easier to configure or manage when compared to old ASA 5500-X series, so you dont have to configure it via CLI.
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    Cloudflare
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • We have seen improved throughput on our internet.
    • It took several attempts with Cisco engineers to configure the device; it requires a deep set of knowledge to set up in a more complicated environment.
    • This will allow us to move forward with a more stable and configurable environment with security available we didn't have before.
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    Cloudflare
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