Cisco Defense Orchestrator the best management platform for the Cisco Firewalls
December 05, 2023

Cisco Defense Orchestrator the best management platform for the Cisco Firewalls

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Defense Orchestrator

The main issue was a scalable solution to manage our fleet of Cisco firepower threat defense firewalls. They are managed locally and manage via FMC. The Cisco Defense Orchestrator was the most financially likeable option. The price point per firewall was great with most features of the FMC on prem device. There were only a handful of features that were not moved to the cloud.

Pros

  • Upgrade OS
  • Manage changes at scale
  • Group like configurations
  • Clone configs for other firewalls
  • Migrate from on prem to cloud

Cons

  • FMC in the cloud needs more features like the on prem version
  • A way of managing the firewalls both on box and with FMC at the same time
  • A way to log local for users not wanting to log all events to the cloud
  • Positive ROI with enhanced functionality that FDM doesn't have
  • We continue to use it today
We used the on box management platform. This required API usage for automating things. It was not scalable and a lot of features are not there. There are platforms like manage engine, but they are not Cisco FP native and had limitations as well.

Do you think Cisco Defense Orchestrator delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Defense Orchestrator's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Defense Orchestrator live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Defense Orchestrator go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Defense Orchestrator again?

Yes

Use case would be if you wanted most of the functionality of the FMC on prem but had no datacenter, cloud presence in AWS, or a cloud presence in Azure for an FMCv. You gain an always up FMC to manage the firewalls due to resiliency of the cloud FMC. You get almost all the functionality of an FMC on prem.

Cisco Defense Orchestrator Feature Ratings

Firewall Security Management
7.7
Policy planning and rule management
10
Automated Policy Orchestration
8
Device Discovery
8
Policy Compliance Auditing
8
Attack Path Simulation Testing
5
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
7
Firewall Rule Cleanup
8

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