Cisco Secure Firewall

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Cisco Secure Firewall
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Cisco Firepower NGFW) is a firewall product that integrates with other Cisco security offerings. It provides Advanced Malware protection, including sandboxing environments and DDoS mitigation. Cisco also offers a Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System, which provides security across cloud environments using techniques like internal network segmentation. The firewall can be managed locally, remotely, and via the cloud. The product is scalable to the scope of…N/A
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Cisco Secure Firewall
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Cisco Secure Firewall
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We use both vendors in our environment, I believe it's positive to go with multi vendor approach. As previously mentioned, the PA has the global find option, which is a big asset when troubleshooting. On the other hand, I feel the FTD's CLI is more intuitive and can help you …
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I really like Cisco FTD with FMC. It is one of the best products out there. Nevertheless, when compared to PaloAlot it has some room for improvements. The PaloAlto firewalls in general are faster easier to use and have better features. Easier to TS and faster to operate. I …
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To have homogeneous hardware and also for the performance and great support.
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Integration with ISE to deploy identity based policy
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At the moment I just used the Cisco Secure Firewall so I can't compare to other vendors.
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We are using both Panorama and FMC as well.
Different firewalls for different networks but we managing both in the same time.
Both working well, can manage the firewalls from it, Logging working great in both.
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Security performance and awareness.
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We use the FMC as a virtual machine, it combines administration, monitoring and can be used perfectly for error analysis. There are restrictions due to administration without the FMC, so we decided on the FMC as the central administration.
Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
The single pane of glass and straightforward interface make[s] Cisco Secure Firewall an upgrade in regards to usability over the ASA in my book. Configuring, auditing and upgrading are all easily doable and learnable, and the systems seem are very reliable. The inspection …
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We use FortiNet products as well and logging and management is a lot easier with them.
Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
I believe Cisco firewalls are definitely on par with Palo Alto but the latest AI feature releasing in 2024 will certainly surpass all expectations. Fortinet is going to struggle after this and I can say that with certainty given we have removed all our FortiGate firewalls.
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Anyconnect VPN is still very popular among health care industry.
Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
Because reputation of the brand, but fortinet its easier to operate
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compared to other vendors, Cisco continues to provide cost effective and durable solutions
Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
FMC is used as GUI format to manage the FTD's. DNAC and ISE communicates with the firewall
Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
CheckPoint has a far superior user interface for configuration and troubleshooting. Cisco ASA had a great CLI interface.
Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco offers a great troubleshooting UI this makes things easier to fix an issue, you can capture traffic from CLI as you did with ASA and through the GUI and read the captures. Easy to deploy and integrate in any architecture.

URL filtering is very rich, you can find multiple …
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We found that Cisco compares very favorably to the Palo Alto firewalls, especially with their latest release in the Secure Firewall line. The performance has been phenomenal compared to the earlier Firepower models, which was one of the few advantages I felt Palo Alto still …
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Features
Cisco Secure Firewall
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Secure Firewall
7.5
62 Ratings
12% below category average
Identification Technologies7.654 Ratings
Visualization Tools6.556 Ratings
Content Inspection7.656 Ratings
Policy-based Controls8.159 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP7.551 Ratings
Firewall Management Console7.459 Ratings
Reporting and Logging7.060 Ratings
VPN7.852 Ratings
High Availability7.857 Ratings
Stateful Inspection8.056 Ratings
Proxy Server6.734 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cisco Secure Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(62 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.6
(2 ratings)
Performance
5.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.6
(21 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Secure Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
Sometimes it is really hard to handle. There are so many bugs especially when it comes to ACL or HA creation. Sometimes the Cisco Secure Firewall just needs a restart in order to work but that shouldn't be like that in our environment the Cisco Secure Firewall is the heart of the network and if the Cisco Secure Firewall is down the whole branch is down, for that we need a more reliable product.
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Pros
Cisco
  • How the firewall works well is normally the firewall is protecting the secure network for the internal network to prevent the attack from external network. normally for the ISP customer, we usually filter the firewall polices only for the server farm, server farm because normally in ISP is the customer doesn't want to be filtered. So only for the server farm, they need the firewall for the enterprise like banking and for the DDoS attack, like the malware attack, something like that. And then sometimes it's some customer in ISPalso, they got the many DDoS attack and then they are using the public ip. When there are using the public ip, they need to protect their ip. So they need to use the firewall. So the firewall is essentially needed. many attackers and many, many things, terrible things have been to the network which has large impact..
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Cons
Cisco
  • The UI in Cisco Firepower formerly Sourcefire) is complicated and entirely redundant. A lot of these features are not useful, and therefore, it can be removed from the main window.
  • The interface is very slow, with each operation taking a lot of time. Searching through the logs takes too much time.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
It works really well. We can do most anything we want or need to with it, and you don’t have to have a doctorate or multiple certs to necessarily figure it out. The thing that would probably have to happen to make us switch would be if we just got priced out - Cisco’s more powerful and higher bandwidth models cost a pretty penny.
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Usability
Cisco
Solution is highly effective, offers a lot of features with constant improvements and additions of new features over time. It's relatively easy to get familiar with the system, especially if transitioning from adaptive security appliances. If this is not the case, as for learnability there's a learning curve but once learned it is relatively easy to remember the details about the system even after a period of non-use
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Reliability and Availability
Cisco
We have had really good success with Cisco Secure Firewall when it comes to availability. Even when we’ve had temporary issues with one appliance or the other, or with the Firewall Management Center, it has stayed up and defended our network diligently. We even had an issue where the licensing got disabled for multiple days, and it kept spinning like a top
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Support Rating
Cisco
Customer service has been great. TAC has been mostly able to identify and fix problems that we may have and have been very responsive. If for some reason something isn't fixed right away, they have been adamant on staying with us and working the issues out before things get escalated up the chain.
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
In the beginning transition from Adaptive Security Appliance to Cisco Secure Firewall did not look like the best choice. Solution was new, there were a lot of bugs and unsupported features and the actual execution in the form of configuration via Firepower Management Center was extremely slow. Compare configuring a feature via CLI on ASA in a manner of seconds (copy/paste) to deployment via FMC to Secure Firewall which took approx. 10 mins (no exaggeration). Today, situation is a bit different, overall solution looks much more stable and faster then it was but there's still room for improvement.
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
We use the FMC as a virtual machine, it combines administration, monitoring and can be used perfectly for error analysis. There are restrictions due to administration without the FMC, so we decided on the FMC as the central administration.
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Cisco Secure Firewall has provided a single management interface for all of our devices.
  • We have had issues implementing 1010 in HA where a site was using a dynamic IP previously.
  • Lack of DHCP options has slowed deployment to our smaller sites.
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