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8.4
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8.2
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7.3
73%
Reporting and Logging (31)
7.0
70%
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What is Cisco Firepower 1000 Series?
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is built to allow users to simplify security. With 1000 Series firewalls and Cisco Defense Orchestrator, the vendor states that users get class-leading security while saving time on firewall administration while Defense Orchestrator upgrades firewalls with one tough, automatically de-conflicts overlapping security policies and centralizes the management of AWS VPC image security rules.
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series Features
Firewall Features
- Supported: Identification Technologies
- Supported: Visualization Tools
- Supported: Content Inspection
- Supported: Policy-based Controls
- Supported: Active Directory and LDAP
- Supported: Firewall Management Console
- Supported: Reporting and Logging
- Supported: VPN
- Supported: High Availability
- Supported: Stateful Inspection
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
The 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 1000 Series platforms run Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Cisco® Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software.
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, WatchGuard Network Security, and Fortinet FortiGate are common alternatives for Cisco Firepower 1000 Series.
Reviewers rate VPN highest, with a score of 8.6.
The most common users of Cisco Firepower 1000 Series are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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Migration of current ASA 5505, ASA5540 firewall fleet. The migration steps are to migrate to an new platform recommending Firepower Threat Defense.
- Simplicity of functionality
- Throughput of traffic
- Ease of implimentation
- Real time logging to FMC
- Option for web interface for real time logging even if you are FMC controlled
May 15, 2022
FTD makes these hard to love...
Use for our main firewalls and used to segment certain VLANs off further.
- Single object multi site management.
- Multi site deployment
- 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.
March 29, 2022
Great Support with advance Threat Intelligence
Very good Firewall for small to mid-size offices. We upgraded from ASA to Cisco Firepower 1000 Series. Great support from Cisco made us choose Cisco Firepower 1000 Series. We use it for VPN, IPS, and URL Filtering. Great product for these services. Previously it was buggy now Cisco has improved its security products and slowly becoming the Market leader. Stable and great support are the two words for it.
- VPN
- IPS
- URL Filtering
- Costly
- GUI
March 23, 2022
Ideal firewall for small and medium branch offices
Cisco Firepower 1000 is an entry NGFW for small/medium and branch offices that are designed to deliver excellent security solutions at a budget price with ease of administration.
- Cisco IPS
- Cisco Malware Defense for Networks
- URL filtering
- The GUI management could be better
- Lack of reporting features
November 08, 2021
High Performance Threat Defense in a Pretty Box
Cisco Firepower is an excellent solution that works in tandem with our EDR solution. Talos is an industry leading organization that integrates seamlessly with the CF1000 and provides really solid firewall management and administration, reducing the time it takes to upgrade, organize rules, or perform weekly change management duties on our current security infrastructure.
- Firewall Administration
- Network Security
- AWS VPC Rules
- Azure Integration
October 13, 2021
Cisco's best next-generation firewall
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is a true next-generation firewall designed for more visibility, more control, and protection of layer 7 attacks on your organization. This is one of the best firewalls providing all the advanced features like advanced malware protection, URL filtering, advanced IPS, threat prevention, etc. I have been managing the Cisco Firepower 1000 Series for the last 2 years. It gives me more visibility of my network and more control on layers 3 and 4. It also allows me to control the incoming and outgoing network traffic of my organizations.
- More visibility on network traffic
- Advanced malware protection
- Advanced IPS
- URL filtering
- Threat prevention
- It can prevent any DNS attack
- Site-to-site VPN
- Cisco AnyConnect remote VPN
- SSL encryption
- Access list
- NAT
- Sandbox
- Centralized management
- Anti-spam
- It can stop any phishing attack
- Easy to generate the report and logs
- It takes time to push the policy through ASDM
October 08, 2021
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series || My Review
[Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is] specially designed for layer 7 security. It provides all advanced features like advanced malware protection, advanced Intrusion Prevention Systems, URL filtering, etc. We can control users' incoming and outgoing traffic and we will get more visibility of traffic. We are using this series firewall on one of my sites and it is fully secure and protected from any cyber-attacks. We are very happy with all the features and Cisco support.
- IPSEC site to site VPN
- Advanced malware protection
- Intrusion Prevention Systems
- SSL Cisco AnyConnect remote VPN
- URL filtering
- Sandbox
- Email security
- Anti-spam
- Phishing control
- ASDM is not user friendly
September 30, 2021
Ideal for small business
Used by [the] networking team.
- Intrustion prevention and detection
- Access control policy
- LDAP and radius integration
- The GUI management could be improved
- Features are missing in on box management compared to management center
- Reporting could be improved
September 29, 2021
Spectacular product to protect you at home or office! Ease of use and support too!
Quick deployment for Covid testing sites to VPN back to hospitals. This creates a VPN and split tunnels for hospital wifi and local guest network to allow a patient to stay connected as well as clinicians.
- Easy of use and training
- Support is readily available
- Deployment is quick
- Lightweight with big power behind it
- When searching through some menus there are times where a search bar could be implemented to assist.
- VPN log files are cumbersome. Streamlining those when getting into details of 1 site to site is difficult but overall not a deal-breaker.
September 23, 2021
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series - True next-generation firewall series
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is a next-generation firewall series designed to protect your organization from external threats and cyber-attacks. Cisco Firepower is mainly focused on Layer 3 and 4 security control and Layer 7 application visibility and security, to control advanced threats and cyber attacks. I am handling the Cisco Firepower Series for one of my clients. It provides a bundle of security features to prevent any type of cyber-attack.
- Advanced malware protection
- Advanced IPS
- Sandbox
- ACL
- QOS
- Application control
- URL filtering
- Content filtering
- Sometimes there is slowness on ASDM
July 27, 2021
Cisco Firepower for advance security
We are using Cisco Firepower 1000 Series for the Malware detection & Intrusion prevention System. We have also configured the logging & reporting feature on it so that we can easily monitor the traffic & take action accordingly. We have also configured remote VPN for remote users' easy accessibility. Cisco Firepower 1000 Series help us to prevent unnecessary traffic & keep up the infrastructure secure.
- Malware detection & Analysis
- Blocking Unnecessary traffic according to the Geo locations
- Application filtering & Content filtering
- IPS/IDS Feature
- Management Console UI needs to be improve
- Need to make a reboot after every config change
May 12, 2021
Cisco Firepower is an authentic respected NGFW.
It has been used by our organization as a network edge security platform. It also has the purpose of offering protection and visibility of layer 7 traffic. We have rules and acls in place to provide greater protection for the internal network and to prevent attacks by external attackers. In total there are two Firepower 1150 appliances and the second is to have a redundancy only where it is on standby. Along with the appliances, malware protection licenses and url filters were purchased.
- Full network protection with ngfw licenses
- Ssl vpn allowing the home office and access to network folders.
- Protection against ransomware.
- Web content filter and proxy for certain users and times.
- Firewall is overloaded a lot when activating all licenses available at certain times.
- Lack of documentation in Portuguese.
May 07, 2021
Edge firewall with limited capacities
I implemented Cisco Firepower 1000 Series firewalls on more than 10 clients all over France. It's used generally for small and medium businesses as an edge firewall for uses like internet surfing, routing, traffic filtering, VPN hub, etc. Generally, it's used by the whole organization if it's well sized for it.
- Application filtering
- IDS/IPS
- Remote access VPN based on AnyConnect
- Management console
- Commit deployment success ratio
- Hit count
We use the Cisco firepower 1000 for routing, firewall functions, and security intelligence features. We replaced our older ASAs which had been failing with these. They offer better throughput and more security than the old ASAs. We provide website hosting and remote access for clients. Utilizing 2 incoming lines for dedicated fiber line with SLA and standard coble line for browsing. The Cisco with all the additional port offerings allows us to configure everything we need.
- Routing
- Firewall functions
- Additional security features
- These devices don't always take changes without a reboot, which can be hard in a production device.
- Cisco is no always clear in how to configure things.
- Routing features can be confusing, we even had a consultant a bit confused over setup.
April 22, 2021
RA
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is being used across the entire company, which is being used as the Internet firewall. It controls access to the Internet and provides content filtering for all corporate users. Guest users also have managed access through the firewall. It is also being utilized for VPN tunneling between branches and other remote sites.
- 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.
- We have a few remote sites that connect via a metro-E link that needed a way back to the network via a more secure route than we were using before. Using the Cisco Firepower 1120 and 1140 we were able to successfully get those sites back onto the network over a VPN link with a much better/safer protocol and connection type.
- We user the Cisco Firepower 1120 in a variety of use cases across our division. We typically use it in a high-availability configuration, both in the same room together and separated via some distance. The Cisco Firepower 1000 Series has been a nice upgrade from our previous models of Cisco Firewalls.
April 08, 2021
Firepower 1000 (Mbps) Series
It fills in the gap as Cisco Anyconnect remote access solution.
- Single pane of glass management using FMC
- Great as remote access VPN Solution
- Saves a lot of headaches with URL and FQDN based policies
- It is stable now, and Cisco TAC is great at troubleshooting if any issues occur
- Great product but at this price point there is a lot of competition
- Some implementations maxed out NGIPS throughput and Strained CPU
We user the Cisco Firepower 1120 in a variety of use cases across our division. We typically use it in a high-availability configuration, both in the same room together and separated via some distance. The Cisco Firepower 1000 Series has been a nice upgrade from our previous models of Cisco Firewalls.
- Reliability
- Rulesets
- Cost performance
- GUI
- Licensing ease
- Central management
February 04, 2021
Cute little firewalls that can keep up with the big boys!
We have a few remote sites that connect via a metro-E link that needed a way back to the network via a more secure route than we were using before. Using the Cisco Firepower 1120 and 1140 we were able to successfully get those sites back onto the network over a VPN link with a much better/safer protocol and connection type.
- Uses the latest high security protocols
- Lots of other great firewalling tools and abilities
- Fairly priced for a NGFW
- Good technical support
- Must upgrade to the higher end models in the series to add sfp ports
- Racking the smaller units can be difficult due to reduced size/non standard racking type
- Price of an 1150 is almost comparable to the 2000 series
February 03, 2021
I wouldn't recommend Firepower
[Cisco Firepower 1000 Series] is use as IPS and Firewall System. This help with the monitoring and log on use behavior
- Geo-Blocking
- Malware Detection
- License model is a nightmare
- For time to time is too complex to configure
- Needs other tools to get the result you are looking
December 04, 2020
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series Review
The licence price was costy using every year
- Simple to manage
- Highly security and filter malicious activity
- High prformance
- Defend against BOTs
- easy to manage logs
December 03, 2020
A secure, if complicated, firewall solution
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is being used across the entire company, which
is being used as the Internet firewall. It controls access to the Internet and
provides content filtering for all corporate users. Guest users also have managed
access through the firewall. It is also being utilized for VPN tunneling
between branches and other remote sites.
- Secure high-end solution, protects the business
- Updates threat licensing--constant updates allow ease of management
- Cost of add-on features
- Cost of Smartnet
- Complexity of installation process
December 01, 2020
Cisco Firepower Appliances
Purchased [Cisco] Firepower [1000 Series] appliances to replace legacy ASA 5500X series with [Cisco] Firepower modules. Used for AnyConnect employee RAS, IPSEC site to site VPNs and local internet access breakout from sites. Firepowers allowed us to scale from ~100 remote users a day to almost 1500 in response to COVID work from home restrictions.
- Secure employee remote access in conjunction with AnyConnect client
- Logging with high level of connection, application and user visibility
- Reliable and secure as you would expect from Cisco
- Cloud based Firepower Management Centre doesn't support stateful HA of multiple management consoles
- Would be great to have embedded extensible objects for ever-changing Office 365 address ranges and CDN URLs
November 17, 2020
Firepower from a multi-vendor MSSP engineer's perspective
The Cisco Firepower 1000 Series and other models are used by many clients managed and/or supported by my employer. It is used by many as a way of inspecting traffic to secure the network from threats and ensure only sanctioned traffic is traversing in any direction. Cisco's Firepower 1000 Series is a scalable IPS solution that helps many of our clients to segment the network into zones and mitigate and prevent threats.
- Network segmentation by zones--allows trusted traffic to pass inspected or uninspected while non-trusted traffic is always inspected.
- Scalable management--many different types of policies are available within Cisco Firepower 1000 Series management to ensure proper access, authorization, inspection, and threat response.
- Redundancy--Cisco Firepower 1000 Series devices can be set up in High Availability in the event there are issues with one member.
- Compatibility--Cisco Firepower 1000 Series devices can be used in tandem easily with other Cisco products or in a vendor-arbitrary environment.
- Software bugs--Often bugs are encountered that may provide a threat to the network if exploited.
- Log retention is often sub-par if not used with an external log management system.
- Many upgrade failures are encountered with Cisco Firepower 1000 Series devices.
October 28, 2020
Cisco Firepower 1140
We currently use a Cisco FirePower 1140 to segment networks to keep critical components safe. It is used by our plant and managed by IT. It provides protection from any unwanted traffic going from our business network to our manufacturing network. I chose the firepower for its ease of use and configuration.
- Low learning curve--I was able to jump in and learn the interface in no time.
- Easy to set up--it was racked and running with rules within an hour.
- Only shows some traffic, but that may be my limited knowledge.
- Doesn't make coffee.
October 07, 2020
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series Review
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is being used across my organization. We have a total of 15 branches, and they all use Firepower 1000 Series as the firewall. It elevates the cost of using MPLS. We just need a cheap internet line with decent speed to set up a VPN tunnel and it's good to go.
- VPN tunnel is very easy to set up using Firepower Management Center.
- Reusable Objects make things easier to configure and understand.
- The Dashboard is not as diverse and customizable.
- Lack of option to automatically backup FTD config