Pros and Cons of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center 2025

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Skybox Security , Palo Alto Panorama , and FireMon are common alternatives for Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.

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What is Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?

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…

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Cisco FMC

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 25, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Cisco Secure Firewall Management [Center (formerly Firepower Management Center)] to protect our entire organization and its IT assets. We also have firewalls managed by...

Verified user

Administrator

5 years of experience

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

February 20, 2024

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For firewalling, policies, VPN, and API of course, the automation part of it. So basically for managing our network infrastructure security.

Verified user

Employee

2 years of experience

Cisco Secure FMC is a good firewall manager.

Rating: 7 out of 10

January 23, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

Cisco Secure FMC is a good tool for managing multiple firewalls across different networks. It acts like a controller where you make policies and configurations and then deploy...

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Engineer

5 years of experience

Cisco Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

August 26, 2023

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So we, as a company, we sell the product to various clients in my organization will support and manage it for the client. So just keeping the firewall rules and everything up ...

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Manager

8 years of experience

Cisco Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

August 26, 2023

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We use it to manage all different kinds of firewalls, well at least all different kinds of secure firewalls. Usually fire powers of course. We also use it to actually check an...

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Consultant

4 years of experience

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Palo Alto Panorama

$9,500

What is Palo Alto Panorama?

According to the information provided by the vendor, Palo Alto Panorama is a network security management solution that intends to simplify and enhance cybersecurity processes for businesses. The product's primary objective is to offer various features, including unified policy management,…

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Features

Firewall Security Management

Firewall Security Management Software supports monitoring and configuration of firewalls from a central dashboard

8.2

Avg 8.1

8.5
Policy planning and rule management
(19) Ratings
Monitor the effectiveness of network security infrastructure
7.1
Automated Policy Orchestration
(17) Ratings
Automatically brings together all security controls in one place, automates changes and collapses risks
8
Device Discovery
(17) Ratings
Ability to automatically find all devices connected to the network
7.6
Policy Compliance Auditing
(17) Ratings
Automatic identification of gaps in compliance, remediation, and generation of compliance reports for auditors
8.8
Attack Path Simulation Testing
(14) Ratings
Simulation of potential attack paths to expose network exposure
8.2
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
(17) Ratings
Ability to pinpoint unusual events or trends
8.3
Vulnerability Scans
(14) Ratings
Network scans to pinpoint vulnerable locations for remediation
9
Firewall Rule Cleanup
(16) Ratings
Ability to detect and cleanup rules that are either partially or completely unused, expired or shadowed

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What is Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?

The Cisco Secure Firepower Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center) is presented by the vendor as the 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. The vendor states that with it, users easily go from managing a firewall to controlling applications to investigating and remediating malware outbreaks.

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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 malware outbreaks.

Skybox Security, Palo Alto Panorama, and FireMon are common alternatives for Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.

Reviewers rate Firewall Rule Cleanup highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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Cisco FMC

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 25, 2024

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 201-500 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

Pros

Ease of administration
Latest security updates with easy ability to implement with little to no user impact
Cutting edge functionality to meet any business need and its ability to add features and functions after its already on the market

Cons

Licensing is difficult to navigate on purchase
Renewal licensing and support isn't all that easy to do and has its issues
The lowest end firewalls on the market seem to be EOL sooner than documented and requires earlier upgrading to ensure FMC itself can be kept current for security reasons. if you buy anything but the cheapest model firewalls this is not a problem
Implementing some functionality is more complex than it should be and believe Cisco could do better in this regard to the software

Cisco Secure FMC is a good firewall manager.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 23, 2024

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 501-1000 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

5 years of experience

Pros

Single Pane of Glass.
Central Repository.
Eases device upgrades.

Cons

Needs to be more intuitive.
Instruction bubbles on different settings

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 20, 2024

Verified User

Employee in Other

Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

2 years of experience

Pros

Firewall Policy. Protect the resources, our servers from other people accessing the servers. So basically firewall policies. It's great to have them and it's easy to manage.

Cons

The API. You can use the GUI and the API at the same time, you can only use one of them. So there's improvement. A big one, hopefully.

Cisco Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

August 26, 2023

Verified User

Manager in Other

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

8 years of experience

Pros

It has good integration with other Cisco's networking products such as ICE and Umbrella.

Cons

I would like to get to a point where Flex Config is no longer muted.

Cisco Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 26, 2023

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

4 years of experience

Pros

It's really easy to correlate events and just to see on multiple firewalls what is actually happening within the network.

Cons

In comparison to the ASA, for instance, the VPN setup is easy, but to actually see which SAS are up, it's really hard to see that. And it's easier on the ASA, so that is something that probably can improve. So we could actually see like this kind of traffic is up and running so we know which essays are down or where we can actually troubleshoot easier

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