Cisco Secure Firewall Review
June 11, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Firepower 1010
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Firewall
It is our edge security solution, so for the internet, so in all of our egress points, we have the Cisco Secure Firewalls at each of the egress points. Also keeps potential threat actors out of our network.
Pros
- We use it for our remote VPN users and our site to site VPN, and we had an opportunity to replace it because we have some other firewalls that sit behind the Cisco ones, but we love the user interface and the way Cisco Umbrella ties in with the VPN agent. So we kept that and our users love the product because it's easy to use.
Cons
- I think the biggest thing has was the FMC for us because, which is the management console. Because when we originally purchased it, it was a Sourcefire product, and then Cisco purchased Sourcefire. And so we had to convert our current firewall versions over to a version that was supported with a new FMC and there wasn't a good migration path for that, and we ended up having to do it manually and it was very painful. But now that we're on the seven version when we went from six to seven, it's been so much easier and the integration is so much better. But that piece was just a bit painful.
- I think it's all been positive, except for the fact, like I was mentioning before, when we had problems with the initial integration, we were trying to migrate over to the new FMC and from the 1500 to the 1600, we had some downtime during that time and we had to do some escalations within Cisco Tech. They were very helpful, but I think that was the biggest thing, and that's long since been resolved. So I don't really have any other thing, anything negative to say at this point. I think it's all positive.
I think the Cisco product is probably pretty much equal now. I would love to say that Cisco is way more advanced or whatever, but Palo Alto, they just focus solely really on firewalls. And before Cisco came out with the FTD, the ASAs would only do layer four. So that's one of the reasons why that we purchased the Palo Alto is because they would do layer seven. And when we went to the FTDs, since they do layer seven as well, we just wanted to have different layers of security with our firewalls. So we just put the Palo Altos behind the Ciscos in case that there was anything that the Ciscos didn't catch, the Palo Altos would.
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?
No
Would you buy Cisco Secure Firewall again?
Yes
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