Item: Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Rating: 9
Author: Philip Clerico

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) is our Firewall, IPS, and VPN. It is being used across our entire company. We use it to scrub the Internet Traffic to limit the amount of bad traffic that gets past our Firewall and IPS.

Pros and Cons

Easy of Use
Alerting

The email alerts could use some additional data within them.
The dashboards are typical of other tools nothing special.

Return on Investment

It has made researching IPS alerts easier.
I wish ours had the SSL decryption as that would help even more.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco ASA

Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) is so much better than the Cisco ASA's. Geoblocking is worth its weight in gold.

Support Rating

Our network engineers never have a long wait when working with Cisco Support on the Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) when they need to open a ticket.

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center again?

Yes

Other Software Used

LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform, Rapid7 Nexpose, Sophos Intercept X

Likelihood to Recommend

The way we have Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) setup the IPS scrubs the data first and then the Firewall. That way, we have two separate passes to eliminate the noise.

FMC has more than what you are looking for

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances)