Cisco Secure Firewall

“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.”

“it's value for money allowed us to replace the other vendor fw with the firepower giving us more features and less expensive licenses. … Cisco Secure Firewall is worth all the money spent.”

“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.”

“FMC and FTD's are not cheap, but the value is in the security and performance Talos Security intelligence feeds are a big win, and we block on all categories.”

“I think especially the smaller devices, when you have like a hundred of them, the price, the price.”

“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.”

“If we could do this all over again, I believe not much would change, I personally would have the knowledge of asking for a budget for a bigger platform, so we could offer security services as a part... … Offer it as a part of our CPE to business customers Remote access services to customers as a value add service.”