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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Secure Firewall

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACisco 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

    Cisco Umbrella

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Secure FirewallCisco Umbrella
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Secure FirewallCisco Umbrella
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    Cisco Secure Firewall outperforms and the feature set are much better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    We demoed a few Palo Alto firewalls as a comparison to Cisco Secure Firewall. The two are indeed similar, but for our environment, Cisco's solution won out. Palo Alto appeared to potentially be more expensive than Cisco and although it has many similar features, we found that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    Cisco Secure Firewall is not so complicated to configure, especially as a Firewall manager where your main business is to create new rules or create site to site tunnels and so on. You can easily do this on the Cisco Secure Firewall, with CheckPoint this was a bit more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
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    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    To have homogeneous hardware and also for the performance and great support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    We found that Cisco compares very favorably to the Palo Alto firewalls, especially with their latest release in the Secure Firewall line. The performance has been phenomenal compared to the earlier Firepower models, which was one of the few advantages I felt Palo Alto still …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    and many others
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    Cisco Secure Firewall aka Firepower has a more visibility than the ASA, specially with use of FMC. The Secure Firewall also adds a lot of security features, with IPS, IDS, AVC, Security Intelligence, Identity Mapping and so on.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Secure Firewall
    Price was my reason for selecting Cisco Secure Firewall.
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Umbrella
    Cisco Umbrella better integrated into our Cisco environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cisco Umbrella
    I don't think we have used any other products in this.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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 FirewallCisco Umbrella
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Secure Firewall and Cisco Umbrella
    Feature
    Cisco Secure Firewall
    7.9
    79 Ratings
    Cisco Umbrella
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools7.072 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection8.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls8.876 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP8.865 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console8.274 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging7.275 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN7.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability8.571 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection7.870 Ratings00 Ratings
    Proxy Server6.741 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Cisco Secure FirewallCisco Umbrella
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (84 ratings)
    8.3
    (99 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (35 ratings)
    7.0
    (63 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (11 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)