Cisco Secure Firewall will get the job done
June 13, 2025

Cisco Secure Firewall will get the job done

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

Software Version

Firepower 1140

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Firewall

We use them to segment network zones in our data center. They are also used at our internet edge to secure the perimeter of our network. At the campus networks they are used to zone off untrusted devices to control access to our private networks.

Pros

  • Layer 3 and 4 access controls
  • Upgrade management is simple through FMC
  • Throughput

Cons

  • QA for code release still need improvement
  • TAC support needs improvement
  • Has been great at centralizing access control at the campus
  • Has provided great visibility into traffic flows in the data center
Performance with the inspection feature has been very good. We've only experienced issues with certain traffic types particularly with storage transfer protocols so the inspection would have to be bypassed.
The expertise level has varied across the board. We have several incidents where the TAC engineer would engage an issue but we would have to question the conclusion only to get transferred to another TAC engineer. Once you engage with a knowledgeable engineer, then we would make better progress.
We use VPN for remote access to our environment as well as business to business connectivity. For log management and analytics we send that data to our Splunk implementation to correlate this data when has been very useful in identifying issues.
The other products do well with simplifying some of the tasks such as rule creation where it would create rules based on a zone.

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

Works well with zoning traffic in our data center. Also works great with VPN remote access as well as site-to-site VPN.

Cisco Secure Firewall Feature Ratings

Firewall
9.2
Identification Technologies
8
Visualization Tools
7
Content Inspection
7
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
10
Firewall Management Console
10
Reporting and Logging
10
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
Not Rated

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