A product to be entirely reviewed
February 11, 2026

A product to be entirely reviewed

Damien Wagemans | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review

Software Version

Firepower 1010

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Firewall

We use this Cisco Secure Firewall everywhere in our company.

Pros

  • Snort
  • Lina

Cons

  • Many bugs
  • Software upgrade reliability
  • Integration with FMC
  • Many hours spent with TAC to troubleshooting day zero bug
Secure firewall is performing well in terms of security filtering.
The real problem is the stability of the platform. Also, the usage of the CLI...

FXOS -> security module(s) -> connect FTD -> lina or Linux...

Many place to collect logs which might be very confused. We really feel that this product has not been built from scratch but from multiple acquisitions...
Support is getting worst since unless the case is escalated
VPN is nice and working very well. Nothing to say about that. It's very stable.

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

No

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

No

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

No

Did implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall go as expected?

No

Would you buy Cisco Secure Firewall again?

No

As explained, many bugs.. We had few outages after software upgrades

Cisco Secure Firewall Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
7
Visualization Tools
7
Content Inspection
7
Policy-based Controls
7
Active Directory and LDAP
7
Firewall Management Console
3
Reporting and Logging
7
VPN
8
High Availability
8
Stateful Inspection
7

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