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Cisco Firepower 1000 Series vs. pfSense

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Firepower® 1000 Series for small to medium-size businesses and branch offices is a family of four threat-focused Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) security platforms designed to deliver business resiliency through superior threat defense. The vendor provides that they offers exceptional sustained performance when advanced threat functions are enabled. The 1000 Series’ throughput range addresses use cases from the small office, home office, remote branch office to the Internet edge. The…N/A

    pfSense

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ApfSense is a firewall and load management product available through the open source pfSense Community Edition, as well as a the licensed edition, pfSense Plus (formerly known as pfSense Enterprise). The solution provides combined firewall, VPN, and router functionality, and can be deployed through the cloud (AWS or Azure), or on-premises with a Netgate appliance. It as scalable capacities, with functionality for SMBs. As a firewall, pfSense offers Stateful packet inspection, concurrent…

    $179

    per appliance

    Pricing
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriespfSense
    Editions & Modules
    Firepower 1000
    1,000-5,000
    per appliance
    SG-1100
    $179
    per appliance
    SG-2100
    $229
    per appliance
    SG-3100
    $399
    per appliance
    SG-5100
    $699
    per appliance
    XG-7100-DT
    $899
    per appliance
    XG-7100-1U
    $999
    per appliance
    XG-1537
    $1,949
    per appliance
    XG-1541
    $2,649
    per appliance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriespfSense
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriespfSense
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Firepower 1000 Series
    I faced a lot of issues with pfSense. The configuration was very difficult through the dashboard and there were a lot of bugs. Cisco Firepower 1000 Series provides all the security features. I am very happy with this series and its features.
    Incentivized
    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriespfSense
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Firepower 1000 Series and pfSense
    Feature
    Cisco Firepower 1000 Series
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    pfSense
    7.6
    11 Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.031 Ratings5.010 Ratings
    Visualization Tools7.230 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Content Inspection8.330 Ratings4.011 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls8.733 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP8.429 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console7.232 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging8.333 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    VPN9.128 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    High Availability9.232 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection8.828 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings6.111 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriespfSense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (34 ratings)
    9.6
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.3
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (34 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)