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Cisco Secure Firewall

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

8.1 /10

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What is Cisco Secure Firewall?

The Cisco UTMs are all-in-one solution that offer flexible Internet redundancy, comprehensive security, and very easy-to-use configuration flows. Secure Firewall helps you plan, prioritize, close gaps, and recover from disaster—stronger. Unify security across your high-performing data centers, providing superior visibility and efficiency.

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Awards & Recognition

Cisco Secure Firewall won the following awards in the Unified Threat Management category

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Cisco Secure Firewall Ratings

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84 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+84 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Cisco Secure Firewall?

0% Negative

14% Neutral

86% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Enables Productivity
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Firewall

Virtual Private Network

Intrusion Detection Prevention

Network Access Control

Anti Malware and Threat Protection

Endpoint Protection

Web Content Filtering

Anti Spam

Deep Packet Inspection

Application Layer Control

Sandboxing

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 77

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

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Cisco Secure Firewall Reviews

Aditya K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Construction
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Feb 2023

One of the best and secure NG Firewall solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

Compare to other products cisco provides in-depth security, reporting, monitoring, and management. Their support is also highly qualified and very polite.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Their technical support engineers are highly qualified and always ready with the solution.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The licenses cost and renewal costs are a bit high compared to other similar products

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I will recommend this product but its good to decide whether to take it or not by checking the cost.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Anil R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jan 2022

"Adaptive Security Appliance"

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

Cisco ASA 5500 gives us all the advanced security features like advanced malware protection, IPS, URL filtering etc

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Protect data from unauthorized access, Packet Filtering, State full Inspection, Site to Site, and Remote Site VPN.

What do you dislike most about this product?

ASA Having Limited features than Next-generation Firewalls.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Please consider Checkpoint NGFW for Deep Inspection of Packet.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Olivia C.

Role: Operations
Industry: Energy
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Nov 2022

Cisco Secure email to secure your email portal

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

It is effective in detection of malicious emails and spams thus eliminating cyberattacks that target our emails although its lagging, low speed, therefore time-consuming during login

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cisco Secure email is impressive as it is easy and simple to use, it has active detection to threat and immediate elimination, it offers protection against malware, phishing in addition to its integration with Microsoft 365.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It requires training and certification, it doesn’t backup and restore; and it doesn’t show attachment names when exported to a file. With CISCO secure email, its very difficult to access management of spam mails

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is less needed when sending communications which don’t have attachments In the body of emails.

Pros

Reliable
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Caring

Cons

Under Delivered
Less Transparent
Charges for Enhancements

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Cisco Secure Firewall Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+84 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Firewall Firewall functions, such as the blocking or redirecting of data traffic, by port or protocol.​

Virtual Private Network The hosting of VPN secure tunnels, as well as expand the capabilities of the UTM service to those connected to the corporate network via VPN.

Intrusion Detection Prevention Through event monitoring, the detection, countermeasure and prevention of possible security incidents or threats.

Network Access Control Endpoint integration to ensure each connecting device has appropriate security.

Anti Malware and Threat Protection Built-in perimeter anti-virus and anti-spyware protection can include behavioral analysis, e.g. Zero-Day attack protection.

Endpoint Protection Endpoint Protection a single agent, including AV, web & device control. It prevents malware & data loss with no complicated network or directory prerequisites

Web Content Filtering The ability to screen, block or limit access to certain websites which might contravene corporate policy or pose a security threat to the organization.

Anti Spam Spam email filtering and blocking, the ability to release blocked e-mails and the whitelisting/blacklisting of senders.

Deep Packet Inspection The inspection of data transmitted over a network to log, reroute or block to scrutinize the content of data streams, encrypted or within a secure tunnel.

Application Layer Control Ability to control application functions, including lockdown of features as required. This is at the application (layer-7), rather than the network (layer-3).

Sandboxing Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs and tests its contents

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

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Cisco Secure Firewall Reviews

Aditya K.

One of the best and secure NG Firewall solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Anil R.

"Adaptive Security Appliance"

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Olivia C.

Cisco Secure email to secure your email portal

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Firewall

Virtual Private Network

Intrusion Detection Prevention

Network Access Control

Anti Malware and Threat Protection

Endpoint Protection

Web Content Filtering

Anti Spam

Deep Packet Inspection

Application Layer Control

Sandboxing

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization