Cisco Secure Firewall Pricing

“These are good devices but the fact you need to license both devices in a failover pair makes the cost of ownership almost to expensive for our agency.”

“The cost to purchase and license a Cisco Secure Firewall was significantly lower than its Palo Alto counterpart.”

“Once, it detected lateral movement of a ransomware within our network and helped us in containing and destroying it before it spreads, saving thousands of dollars worth of data. … Looking at its pricing and shortcomings, it makes less sense for small scale organizations with a limited budget to adopt it.”

“Subscription cost if high for startups.”

“It saves cost in operational work and maintenance cost.”

“For us, the ROI on Cisco Secure Firewall is Negative on pricing due to additional features.”

“The subscription cost is also lower. … It's cost-effective and offer a lot of features and functionalities.”

“we chose to give every branch office an own firewall from Cisco, thats why it was a bit expensive for us in comparism to Checkpoint, Cisco is cheaper.”

“The price should be cheaper for the developing country.”

“Licensing is more that the hardware cost and seems excessive, especially given having to pay for two full sets of licenses in an Active-Standby pair.”

“Palo Alto appeared to potentially be more expensive than Cisco and although it has many similar features, we found that they were either basically comparable or in some cases not as good as Cisco's,...”