Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vs. Juniper Security Director

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

Juniper Security Director

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center) are a firewall policy and intrusion detection appliance management system, providing an administrative nerve center for managing critical Cisco network security solutions. It provides complete and unified management over firewalls, application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection. Easily go from managing a firewall to controlling applications to investigating and remediating…	N/A
Juniper Security Director	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Security Director is a portal to SASE, bridging current security deployments with a future SASE rollout. Security Director enables organizations to manage security anywhere and everywhere, on-premise and in the cloud with unified policy management that follows users, devices, and applications wherever they go. Policies can be created once and applied everywhere. Customers can use both Security Director Cloud and on-premises instances simultaneously to securely transition to a SASE…	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

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Community Pulse
	Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center	Juniper Security Director
Considered Both Products	Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center FortiGate and maybe a little bit behind Palo Alto. But I do like the telos is probably has better backing than from a security perspective than Palo Alto. So they're almost even Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center For the competitors, there's Panorama of course which is also very nice. But I do like the FMC better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center The best thing compared with other products is ease of use. With graphical representation of events, it summarizes all the management activities in a few items. We can easily monitor the traffic and it's flow. One main reason we are using this firewall is reliability and it's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Palo Alto Panorama is more user-friendly and provided faster policy deployment compared to Cisco FMC. Panorama is more stable compared to Cisco FMC. Cisco FMC is better when compared to CheckPoint Smart Console. Configuration and troubleshooting in CheckPoint Smart Console … Incentivized Helpful? DS Daniel Sayer Senior Infrastructure Engineer Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center had centralized management for both FTD and ASA Firepower module. Incentivized Helpful? Sunil Redekar Network Security Engineer Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We are managing multiple customers having a large number of Cisco devices that need to be managed by a single platform. For that reason, we have selected the Cisco Firewall Management Center than checkpoint firewall management. It simplifies and automates newly bought cisco … Incentivized Helpful? WL Wayne Lin Digital Strategist, Account Manager Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We partnered with a third-party service provider, which insisted to implement Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center since they had a great expertise with it. Incentivized Helpful? EE Eric Emberly Director, Technology Services Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We are using Cisco Firepower as a feeder for our Internet links. Is a great option for our daily operations and is very reliable and robust, without the need for any switching, we are a very satisfied customer. The support team is on another level, big up for your massive … Incentivized Helpful? MK Masud Kamal Technical Support Engineer Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center NA Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We selected Cisco due to the availability and reputation of their products. We had checked a few others, and found issues that may or may not have affected our company negatively. Cisco's devices, however, have proven to have their own issues and challenges. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We chose Cisco [Secure Firewall Management Center (formerly Firepower Management Center)] as our primary network and security partner. We wanted the stability of one vendor for all these products and at the time no other vendor really supplied the entire network and security … Incentivized Helpful? JP Jon Pedimente Systems Engineer Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Utilized across the entire organization as a single point of entry to the Internet. It provides a secure solution for internal and external users, ensuring secure access to all applications. The AnyConnect solution provides a secure method for remote users to connect into … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center There are no other products that can manage the IPS/IDS from Cisco. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We selected Firepower Management Center because we needed to centralize equiment management and it was easily adapted to our architecture,since at that time we had an ASA with IPS / IDS modules and an FTD and a need to have a URL control and detect a Highest level of threats … Incentivized Helpful? Michael nabil Network Team Lead Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Cisco FMC offered centralized management for FTD and ASA Firepower module. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Castillo Subgerente de Redes y Comunicaciones Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We chose Cisco FMC because all our network is Cisco, so it is more native the use of Cisco Security Tools and the integrations are friendlier and easier. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Sena Systems Engineer Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center I selected Firepower Management Center (FMC Series appliances) because it's easier to manage the firewall policies here and deploy changes in multiple device. There is only one central management that makes it easier to clean up any firewall rules. You can also monitor the … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Mendoza Barberán Analista de Redes y Comunicaciones Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Being a new generation Firewall, we not only validate the connection between ports, but also the applications used by users or by attackers, which gives us substantial improvement in the security of our computers. Incentivized Helpful? PC Philip Clerico Network Security Engineer Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) is so much better than the Cisco ASA's. Geoblocking is worth its weight in gold. Incentivized Helpful? CM Carlos Martinez Director of Engineering Chose Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center We had the opportunity to compare Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) with other solutions, not all of them presented answers to our concerns, we performed critical point, and return tests, Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) was the … Incentivized Helpful?	Juniper Security Director No answer on this topic

Features

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

Juniper Security Director

Firewall Security Management

Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center 8.2 Ratings 1% below category average	Juniper Security Director - Ratings
Policy planning and rule management	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated Policy Orchestration	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device Discovery	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Policy Compliance Auditing	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Attack Path Simulation Testing	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Vulnerability Scans	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Firewall Rule Cleanup	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center	Juniper Security Director
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Palo Alto Panorama Score 8.7 out of 10	Palo Alto Panorama Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	ServiceNow IT Operations Management Score 9.0 out of 10	ServiceNow IT Operations Management Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center	Juniper Security Director
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center	Juniper Security Director
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Great protection and security against the multiple digital virus attacks. Provides detailed logs to track any threat and helps to secure the network promptly. VPN service for remote access of important organizational applications. Best management tool for controlling data and bandwidth resources. Incentivized MK Masud Kamal Technical Support Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Areas like Computer Security need a console to view events. The different support areas would be greatly benefited if they managed to have consoles and alerts that told them where to mitigate the risks. The scope of areas such as Monitoring and Dispatch have a broad vision with tools such as applying the necessary filters for your environment. Incentivized CM Carlos Martinez Director of Engineering Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	We are very satisfied with SecureX and it's adaptive, active nature in protecting or data and systems. It's easy to administer, update, review notifications and update when necessary. Cisco's security practice fits into our needs and continues to evolve as global cyber events change. SecureX is easy to migrate to new cisco gear as we upgrade to newer models when supports ends on older gear. Enabling fast ROI during these capital expenditure projects. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Overall usability is an eight for me because it is easy to manage the firewall policies and monitor the devices' health. The configurations are all done in the GUI which makes it more convenient and hassle free. You can also see the devices' health and the progress of the task thru its taskbar. Incentivized Mark Sena Systems Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability	Since moving to Cisco secure management center from firepower management center we've had no application issues, outages or any other problems. It's always been there for us and always provides us the necessary protection and notification when we need it. Been very happy with all of our Cisco systems over our tenure to date. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	We have the direct support of the manufacturer through its service channels, the attention is 24/7, and the response time is acceptable. The support for this tool is almost nil. It all depends on the level of implementation is carried out so that it can fail and request collaboration. Anyway, the manufacturer backs the entire Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC series appliances) solution. Incentivized CM Carlos Martinez Director of Engineering Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Cisco secure firewall management center is easy to install, moderate to setup in conjunction with firewall hardware, and administration of policy changes afterwards is pretty straight forward. And flexible to add more advanced security configurations as needed. Cisco support website is pretty good for researching how to documentation too. Cisco secure firewall management center enables integration to SecureX - the cloud security protection service. And AMP which protects packet flow with real time analysis. Cisco secure fmc is the evolved name for cisco firepower management center so for those customers who have firepower this is a simple migration. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Palo Alto Panorama is more user-friendly and provided faster policy deployment compared to Cisco FMC. Panorama is more stable compared to Cisco FMC. Cisco FMC is better when compared to CheckPoint Smart Console. Configuration and troubleshooting in CheckPoint Smart Console are more complicated and are not as user-friendly as it is in Cisco FMC Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	We are able to more easily manage the firewalls and their rules via the UI versus relying on an MSP. We were not aware of the site-to-site capability limitations when purchasing, so we had to purchase additional hardware to repair that issue at the time. The API does make it easy to build multiple rules, objects, etc. in bulk, and we have used it quite a lot. This prevents tedious and typo-prone tasks from occurring on the regular. Multiple cases have been required for issues with the firewalls and the management center. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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