Edge firewall with limited capacities
Updated January 31, 2023
Edge firewall with limited capacities
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Firepower 1120
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Firepower 1000 Series
I implemented Cisco Firepower 1000 Series firewalls on more than 10 clients all over France. It's used generally for small and medium businesses as an edge firewall for uses like internet surfing, routing, traffic filtering, VPN hub, etc. Generally, it's used by the whole organization if it's well sized for it.
- Application filtering
- IDS/IPS
- Remote access VPN based on AnyConnect
- Management console
- Commit deployment success ratio
- Hit count
- Remote working possible thanks to RA VPN
- Site-to-site communication possible thanks to IPSEC VPN
- Security enhanced thanks to Talos
FDM is a very simplified management solution but not complete, and FMC needs an additional machine to be installed, so any client could use FDM but they need to have a spare virtual machine. It's better to install FMC, but the weak point is that both FMC and FDM could bug on configuration deployments.
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is a challenger; it still needs improvement to become a leader like Checkpoint or Palo Alto. I installed Palo Alto firewalls, Checkopoint firewalls, and FortiGate, which are much more efficient for now than Cisco Firepower 1000 Series. I also had to work on legacy firewalls like Cisco ASA and SonicWall.
Firepower is an improvement of cisco ASA and stills better than meraki but some ASA functions like any-connect are still to improve
Firepower is an improvement of cisco ASA and stills better than meraki but some ASA functions like any-connect are still to improve