Name: Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
Rating: 7.6 (36 reviews)
Author: Cisco

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Version Control

Development

Alumni Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Contract Management

Enterprise Legal Management

Policy Management

Project Portfolio Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

HR Service Delivery

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)

Data Catalog

Data Center Networking

Data Integration

Database Load Balancing

Density-Optimized Servers

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed DNS

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Managed Hosting

Mobile Application Performance Monitoring  (APM)

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

NoSQL Databases

Observability

Server Management

Time Series Databases

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Audio Editing

Content Management

Contest Management

Customer Journey Analytics

Digital Asset Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Analytics

Marketing Automation

Mobile Advertising

Mobile Analytics

Press Release Management

Product Information Management (PIM)

Social Media Analytics

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Collaboration

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Wireframing

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Communication Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Presales

Sales

Civil Engineering

Construction Workforce Management

Dental

Loan Servicing

Patient Engagement

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

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Cisco offers the Firepower 2100 Series NGFW, designed to allow businesses to gain resiliency through superior security with sustained performance. The Firepower 2100 Series has a dual multicore CPU architecture that optimizes firewall, cryptographic, and threat inspection functions simultaneously, to achieve security doesn’t come at the expense of network performance.

Firepower 2100

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Firewalls are designed to block unauthorized access to and from networks, but chiefly to stop Internet users from accessing private networks.

Firewall

Likelihood to Recommend

Identification Technologies

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

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A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out

Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content

Visualization Tools

Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.

Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering

Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall

Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories

Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management

Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns

VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses

Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working

Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets

A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

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Visual interface

Full functionality

Web interface

Added features

Vpn client

Advanced malware

Site to site

Malware protection

Advanced malware protection

Url filtering

Home

Firewall Software

A firewall. So ultimately it's just preventing and allowing access as needed.

For us, to power the whole system does scaling quite a bit. So we can definitely have a lot of room to grow if needed. The device can support a lot of way more than we need right now, but in the future, if we need more it seems to be a big pro of that. Also the support of Cisco, knowing that it's backed by Cisco definitely is good. You guys are the largest players in the market

Career-wise very familiar with the ASAs, you know, the previous gen firewalls, Pyxis, ASAs, the CHA. As far as being intuitive, those seem to be far more intuitive to learn and figure out what the features and changes and config management, all that stuff is. With Firepower, it's a learning curve and I feel like I have quite a bit of experience with it, and so does my team, but feels like it's not as intuitive, and trying to make changes just always seems harder for some reason. We've gone to some Cisco security training and all that, but even then it's just harder to work with. The other big thing is, and this is a big gripe of mine, I suppose, that on any other firewall, when we have various different manufacturers, if you make a change, you know, a simple change object, object name gets changed or object is deleted or whatever the simplest of change is, it gets implemented instantly.
With the Firepower system, you have to deploy the change and it'll take about six or seven minutes for the change to actually take, which is insanely different than any other platform where that change is instantaneous. So let's say if I'm making seven different changes for a troubleshooting job I don't know which one of the seven is gonna fix it, I do one by one by one. I'm like, oh, let me try one change, one second, change, third change, four changes. It's going to take seven deploys. And seven deploys mean it's gonna take an hour of just deploy time. So that is a big, big gripe

It's keeping threats out like a firewall should. Definitely cost wise it is at a higher cost center than other alternatives. Especially when it comes to licensing. Cisco is generally the higher, for perhaps, definitely for good reason, right? I mean, definitely positive impact as far as working as it should that's at cost.

The Cisco Firepower 2100 [Series] is an amazing all in one Firewall solution for enterprise level business. We have replaced our existing ASA as our main company firewall with the Firepower 2100 series and it solves many of our previous problems with the ASA. The biggest which was having to manage Source Fire (Firepower) on its own outside of the firewall interface. Now it all lives in one box and makes life so much easier.

Nice HTML5 web interface instead of the old java client
Many added features over the ASA
Firepower built in and faster than before

Cisco patches bugs quickly but patches are slow to install and reboot
Smart licensing is getting better but still can be troublesome
Some weird visual interface glitches that require clicking the same options a few extra times

Simplifying our lives by reducing our time spent in a console
Being comfortable knowing the full might of Cisco is safeguarding your network
A good excuse to bump up the IT budget in the next fiscal year!

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Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Overview

What is Cisco Firepower 2100 Series?