Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco Secure Firewall

136 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Secure Firewall	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Secure Firewall delivers comprehensive threat protection for modern, distributed networks. Built to support hybrid workforces and multicloud environments, it enables Zero Trust access, application visibility, and secure remote connectivity. With integration across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX and Talos threat intelligence, the firewall powers organizations to detect and stop more sophisticated threats. Centralized management simplifies policy enforcement, orchestration,…	N/A

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	Cisco Secure Firewall
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall on par with other firewalls vendors I've used over the years Incentivized Helpful? Franck Ngugi IT Specialist in Information Technology at Telesourcia (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall It has great features, and compared to competitors, the cost of deployment is manageable too. Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Mathews IT Expert in Information Technology at LBC SERVICE SRL (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall While Cisco Secure Firewall is pricey, it delivers and does not compromise on capabilities. It is the best for network protection. Worthy every dollar. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco is more secure than FortiGate. Incentivized Helpful? Ahmed Elsayed Principal Architect in Engineering at Rackspace (Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall great Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall The administraion interface of the Cisco secure firewall is a lot more easy to learn than the Palo Alto solution. Also, the dashboard panels offers by Cisco seems a lot more useful and details than the Palo Alto solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Having worked in the Fortinet and Sonicwall space, I have found that the Cisco Secure Firewall platform is the easiest to work with. The platform is easily customizable and overall very clean. Cisco has kept the platform feeling fresh with regular updates. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall We use it because it's the best firewall on the market now. And are the best protection and hardware. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco has a more seamless integration with its firewall management center compared to palo alto's panorama which tends to become out of sync with their firewalls. This can cause config differences, duplicate rules, or just the inability to deploy polices due to inconsistencies. … Incentivized Helpful? Michal Navorka Architect in Information Technology at Reconext (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Well FWs are branch security things and major things so really not much similar device at Cisco portfolio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall They are peer competitors, with Palo Alto offering some advantages over the Cisco products in the way of licensing simplicity and costs. The Palo Alto also supports the abilty to do "to the box" filtering and policy enforcement where Cisco requires special rules that are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall I personally didn't evaluate any other products. We were already working with Cisco, so just keep upgrading. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall I've used Ubiquiti products, SonicWall products, the various older Cisco and Meraki. Cisco is definitely more of an enterprise level and overall it has probably better overall options and integrations and functionality and we've continued to choose to use it because it works … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall We utilize these two products together to provide enhanced user experience and security. Incentivized Helpful? Paulo Zurita Net Admin in Information Technology at IT (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall FTD best in class Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Secure Firewall works better with the Cisco ecosystem when we can utilize it and feels beefy enough when we utilize it in the data center. The Fortinet we have found are great, small cost boxes for remote offices with a better UI then Cisco Secure Firewalls. The feature … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Secure Firewall outperforms and the feature set are much better. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Westphal Network Engineer in Information Technology at MBMI (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Simply object modification Incentivized Helpful? Brian Bowser Network Manager in Information Technology at Apex Fintech Solutions (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Secure Firewall I'm still evaluating new data center build out with Palo Alto, Cisco Secure Firewall or other. Incentivized Helpful?
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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 Secure Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Secure Firewall
Feature	Cisco Secure Firewall 7.9 79 Ratings
Identification Technologies	8.168 Ratings
Visualization Tools	7.072 Ratings
Content Inspection	8.371 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	8.976 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	8.865 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	8.374 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	7.175 Ratings
VPN	7.665 Ratings
High Availability	8.571 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	7.870 Ratings
Proxy Server	6.741 Ratings

User Ratings
	Cisco Secure Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (84 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.2 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (2 ratings)
Performance	5.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.6 (35 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	5.0 (1 ratings)