Next gen firewall
June 24, 2025

Next gen firewall

Gustavo Chang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Firepower 4110

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

We use Cisco Firepower 4100 Series for network perimeter controls. Remote access vpn for our users and site to site vpns for partners and third parties. We use Firepower Management Console to orquestrate the configuration for all of our firewalls. Our HA configuration give us piece of mind for the availability and resiliency piece.

Pros

  • Packet filtering
  • Great vpn client
  • Integrates correctly with other vendors

Cons

  • Takes a lot of time to deploy changes
  • Instability on some releases
  • Lack of innovations
  • Great support
  • Integrates great with other tools
  • Lack of innovations
It not easy to understand the different features it offers. Sometimes you need to spend a couple of minutes to implement a change or even open a ticket with cisco tac to figure it out. Once support is on the phone with you they know how to resolve problems. But it's not an intuitive tool
We switch to Palo Alto due the amount of tickets open with Cisco Firepower 4100 Series. It was taking a great amount of time for our engineers to fix problems. But it was a great tool when it was working as we were expecting. The fact it has a lot of instability on the releases was the deciding factor.

Do you think Cisco Firepower 4100 Series delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Firepower 4100 Series's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Firepower 4100 Series live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Firepower 4100 Series go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Firepower 4100 Series again?

Yes

It's a great firewall but it has some deficiencies as well: it takes to much time to deploy changes from the fmc to the firewalls. Also client posture for vpn clients it's not a native feature. You need to deploy cisco ise posture to check for compliance and enforcement. Updating the vpn client is also a regular task.

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Feature Ratings

Firewall
8.0
Identification Technologies
8
Visualization Tools
8
Content Inspection
9
Policy-based Controls
9
Active Directory and LDAP
7
Firewall Management Console
8
Reporting and Logging
9
VPN
6
High Availability
9
Stateful Inspection
9
Proxy Server
6

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