Review on Cisco Secure Firewall (Firepower)
Updated March 07, 2023

Review on Cisco Secure Firewall (Firepower)

Andreas Foerby | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Firewall

We use Cisco Secure Firewall as our Internet Edge Firewall, VPN firewall.

Pros

  • IPS
  • AVC
  • Visibility
  • Security Intelligence
  • Remote Access VPN
  • Site-2-Site VPN

Cons

  • When using the device with local manager, it could be nice to configure all LINA parts through CLI
  • ASA to FDM combatability
  • Grouping of SGTs
  • Higher throughput
  • More visibility
Cisco Secure Firewall aka Firepower has a more visibility than the ASA, specially with use of FMC. The Secure Firewall also adds a lot of security features, with IPS, IDS, AVC, Security Intelligence, Identity Mapping and so on.

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Secure Firewall again?

Yes

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Secure Email
As an Datacenter Firewall or Internet Edge firewall it is well suited. For VPN Firewall use I would still recommend the ASA Firewall.

Cisco Secure Firewall Feature Ratings

Firewall
9.1
Identification Technologies
10
Visualization Tools
10
Content Inspection
10
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
10
Firewall Management Console
8
Reporting and Logging
10
VPN
7
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
5

Using Cisco Secure Firewall

100 - Internet Edge, VPN Headend with both Remote Access VPN and Site-2-Site VPN.
1 - Systems Engineers, Network Security Engineers
  • Internet Edge Firewall
  • Site-2-Site VPN headend
  • Remote Access VPN headend
  • DMZ Firewall

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