Item: Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Secure FMC is a good tool for managing multiple firewalls across different networks. It acts like a controller where you make policies and configurations and then deploy those settings to the firewalls from a central point of management. It's not very intuitive, and troubleshooting devices is more difficult from the FMC than from something like the old-school ASDM, but as far as managing devices goes, it's pretty good.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Single Pane of Glass.
Central Repository.
Eases device upgrades.

Cons

Needs to be more intuitive.
Instruction bubbles on different settings

Return on Investment

It's made my job a lot easier in most firewall aspects.
It's made investigations faster with a centrally located repo.

Key Insights

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

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Secure FMC is great for managing firewalls, but not so great for troubleshooting firewalls. It makes setting up VPNs between devices easy, and makes creating ACLs a breeze, but it is tough to grasp how to actually view the troubleshooting logs. The Connection Events tab doesn't always show all the information you need either, so troubleshooting specific events requires some more detective work.

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Cisco Secure FMC is a good firewall manager.