Cisco Secure Firewall Review
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Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall
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View all 11 features- Content Inspection (20)9.595%
- Policy-based Controls (20)9.090%
- Firewall Management Console (20)8.888%
- Reporting and Logging (20)8.686%
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Mihai Barbulescu
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What is Cisco Secure Firewall?
Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Cisco Firepower NGFW) is a firewall product that integrates with other Cisco security offerings. It provides Advanced Malware protection, including sandboxing environments and DDoS mitigation. Cisco also offers a Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System, which…
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Firewall
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Product Details
What is Cisco Secure Firewall?
Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Cisco Firepower NGFW) is a firewall product that integrates with other Cisco security offerings. It provides Advanced Malware protection, including sandboxing environments and DDoS mitigation. Cisco also offers a Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System, which provides security across cloud environments using techniques like internal network segmentation. The firewall can be managed locally, remotely, and via the cloud. The product is scalable to the scope of the business needs.
Cisco Secure Firewall Technical Details
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| Mobile Application | No |
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July 13, 2022
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
- IPS
- HA
- Logs correlation
- Software Upgrade
- FMC management console
- Operating system architecture
July 13, 2022
Improve Firepower
- Interface, Management,
- Data flow
- High Availability
- Public Cloud integration
July 13, 2022
Cisco Firepower
- Threat intelligence
- Detailed reports
- Role based access control
- Integration with other solutions
- UI sluggish
July 12, 2022
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
- Ra VPN
- Anti malware
- Ips
- Faster deployment of configuration
- Licenses easier to deploy
- Working with visibility dashboard more flexible
June 19, 2022
Cisco Secure Firewalls, next up from the ASA
- IPS
- S2S tunnel building with Cisco Secure Firepower Management Center
- AMP
- Creating policies in Cisco Secure Firepower Management Center
- I believe it has no SD-WAN availability at this time.
- Features useful in a small office like more complex DHCP options.
- Incorporate DDNS features perhaps built in like Cisco Meraki has.
June 14, 2022
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
- NATing
- Network Separation
- Centralizing traffic path
- More open protocols
- Routing capabilities
- Better integration
December 01, 2021
next generation firewall
- Advanced malware protection.
- URL filtering.
- Virtual private network.
- Remote VPN.
- Advanced IPS.
- SSL encryption.
- Easy GUI.
- Easy cli commands.
- Low cost.
- Centralized management.
- Reporting.
- Logging.
- GUI is slow and create issue during policy push.
- Advanced malware protection
- Advanced url filtering
- Anti spam and anti virus
- Simple dashboard
- Easy to export reporting
- IPS
- Site to site vpn
- SSL encryption
- Cisco any connect remote vpn
- Low cost
- Helpful customer support
- ASDM is little bit slow. cisco should work on this issue.
October 08, 2021
Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW) || My review on Cisco's best product.
- URL filtering
- Sandbox
- Advanced malware protection
- IDS/IPS
- SSL remote VPN
- IPSEC site to site VPN
- Web VPN
- ACL
- NAT
- QOS
- Cisco AnyConnect
- Reporting
- Monitoring
- High Availability
- ASDM is slow
- URL filtering
- Sandbox
- Advanced malware protection
- Network access control
- Network analysis
- Traffic motoring
- Application control
- Content filtering
- ACL
- NAT
- QOS
- IPS
- Anti-spam
- Anti-virus
- ASDM is little bit complicated
September 24, 2021
Next generation firewall. My review on Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Firepower NGFW)
- Advanced IPS
- Advanced malware protection
- Sand box
- URL filtering
- Application filtering
- ACL
- QOS
- NAT
- Reporting
- Logging
- VPN
- Cisco AnyConnect remote vpn
- GUI is little bit slow
September 11, 2021
Next generation firewall || Cisco Secure Firewall
- It provides advanced level intrusion prevention
- It provides advanced malware protection
- URL filtering
- Content inspection
- Sandbox
- VPN support
- SSL support
- Email security
- High cost
- Lots of issues and most of [all] slowness in ASDM.
- Configuration is very complicated through ASDM.
- Easy to update configurations
- Automated backup and failover
- Intuitive Access Control
- Interface can be slow.
- Current version is buggy in regards to tracking connection events.
- File inspection isn't always intuitive to set up.
July 13, 2021
Tired of CLI? Move up to Firewpower
- Updates with the HA Pair are incredibly easy and automated
- FMC with Firepowers provide a single place to view information about devices and connections
- Tedious policy changes can be staged during the working hours and then deployed in one click after hours
- Part of the update process is a readiness check, it cannot be done on an HA Pair. Navigation through several layers of CLI are required to do this.
- Custom OS detection has been clunky at best; NMAP scans need improving.
- Better integration/communication with Cisco's other products like AMP and Umbrella
March 15, 2021
Full feature enterprise grade security
- Strong protection
- Full breadth of customizable features
- Excellent manufacturer support
- Large and active user community
- Cost can get quite high
- Complex for entry level users
- Training typically required to install solution
January 11, 2021
Still the best in the business when it comes to security devices
- Its very fast
- Cisco products are generally very stable.
- Cisco is on top of bug fixes.
- You get well built hardware at this price point.
- Compatibility with most 3rd party equipment.
- Some strange design choices in the interface (could be related to merging 2 platforms).
- Top dollar price.
- Licensing always seem to be a big issue with Cisco products, this one is no exception!
January 09, 2021
Solid platform for the future of firewalls!
- Single pane of control for all ASA, firewall, and source fire functions.
- Well built hardware and software.
- Regular feature patches and upgrades.
- The integration between ASA/Firewall functions and SourceFire functions could use some work.
- Some little glitches in the interface which require refreshes or additional clicks.
- Cost is high but it is likely because you're now buying two products in one.
February 27, 2020
Deep Inspection
- Intrusion Prevention
- Analysis of logs
- Use of security levels in the access policy would be beneficial
- A user interface for EIGRP setup instead of the Flexconfig
January 29, 2020
Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire): The nextGen Solution
- Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire) shows a very detailed report of traffic that it finds as malicious. From Capturing Pcaps to generating analytics corresponding to an incident it makes it very easy for us analysts to decide the next steps.
- Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire) has search functionality that allows us to go very specific while on the managing window, unlike Palo Alto Panorama.
- The UI in Cisco Firepower formerly Sourcefire) is complicated and entirely redundant. A lot of these features are not useful, and therefore, it can be removed from the main window.
- The interface is very slow, with each operation taking a lot of time. Searching through the logs takes too much time.
August 26, 2019
Protect your perimeter with Cisco Firepower NGFW!
- Provides solid security of your perimeter network by preventing attacks and unwanted access.
- Great network visibility to readily identify threats or unwanted behaviors.
- Automated policy application and enforcement allow for a much more efficient way of managing your network.
- Implementation of past ASA functions is not integrated well into the new FTD platform.
- Management Gui (FMC) needs speeding up.
- Flex config needs to be worked on to be less buggy.