Item: Cisco Secure Firewall
Rating: 9
Author: Chris Johnson

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Firewall

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Secure Firewall to secure the internet edge and segment DMZ subnets and PCI zones.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Intrusion Prevention
Route Based VPNs
SD-Wan capabilities

Cons

Better optics support
Better choice of modules when ordering

Return on Investment

We were able to save on hardware by buying larger appliances and using multi instance

Security and Performance

I like the ability to integrate with Cisco ISE (pxgrid) to pull in user or device SGTs and build policy based on those.

Support Rating

TAC support can be lacking, even when purchasing the Tier 2 support for firewalls with our Enterprise Licensing agreement. However, you can generally escalate and get the issue resolved quickly.

Cisco Security Ecosystem

VPNs are critical for cloud tenant access and vendor support. We heavily utilize VPN for this.

Key Insights

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?

Would you buy Cisco Secure Firewall again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for large corporations with large remote office counts and remote users. It might not be as suitable for smaller business.