Firepower.
July 09, 2025
Firepower.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Firepower 1150
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall builds upon the traditional firewall, incorporating Layer 7 security, and integrates with various threat feeds and IPS signatures to provide more comprehensive threat protection. We use them to secure our data centers and internet edge. We also deploy virtual instances of them in the cloud. They send security logs to our SIEM.
Pros
- Has a change audit.
- Sends security events via syslog.
- Allows for high-availability pairs for redundancy.
Cons
- They could have a network object that points to a URL with a list of IPs that get updated.
- Firewall could speed up their upgrade times.
- Firewall could remove FXOS.
- It's hard to back up the firewall as it's a large file.
- Firepower takes a considerable amount of time to upgrade.
- Firepower hardware can run multiple instances of a firewall.
Cisco Firewall has helped protect against significant vulnerabilities such as Log4j and SolarWinds. The firewall is instrumental in integrating with threat feeds that identify malicious IPs and our company blacklists them.
Yes, we utilize log management where we send our syslogs of our connection and malware events to our SIEM. FMC can also store these logs, but they get overwritten too fast.
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
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