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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

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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

Amenda S.

Role: Public Sector
Industry: Construction
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Nov 2022

Cisco is one of the best firewall solutions.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

What best concerning the Cisco ASA line is that it’s not simply a router or a switch, it is a wonderful firewall for your network, very economical and safer even than the well-known IP tables because it is a tool developed for this purpose it becomes additional efficient and secure than a server with many services and any firewall.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I favor the cisco firepower software system suite that works with the ASA we have. This software extremely provides a smart GUI illustration of your security controls and the reporting is excellent. IDS and IPS are inbuilt as well.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Extremely there isn’t any specific issue that I dislike. However in this product, is very vital to own the support up to date, so you’ll have access to the updated security signatures list. Like all of Cisco ASA, some stuff is extremely exhausting to do within the CLI, it’s like Cisco wants us to use the web app. In ASA was a bit hard, in firepower you have got to do it via HTTP.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The appliance was simple to install. It offers tons of choices to configure the appliance according to your actual need. It’s additionally terribly easy to upgrade and their technical support is awesome. We had queries once we installed the appliance and contacted their support. They not solely answered our question but went further and give us sensible configuration recommendations on our existing installation.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Efficient Service

Cons

Less Caring

Oluwanbe O.

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

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Submitted Sep 2022

Great Firewall but upcoming UTM

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

intrution prevention

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Application firewall, web caching, VPN support

What do you dislike most about this product?

No email scanning features unlike other UTM products

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Great as a firewall but does not have the full capabilities of a UTM

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Kevin A.

Role: Operations
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Jun 2022

Cover all the bases really well.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

Meraki is a well thought out simple to manage platform but does have some basic feature gaps, which would be nice and on occasion important to have (simple to manage with good feature set). The ASA covers the full gambit of features especially when mated with the FirePower subscription to bring threat management to the fore (complex to manage but has a deep feature set).

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Meraki has a single pane of glass management tool - the Dashboard. The ASA has an intuitive DM, but when converted to new FTD code the HTML5 interface is much more fluid and user friendly.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The previous user interface and over reliance on Java, made ASA management somewhat tricky. The HTML5 interface removes that headache.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Meraki is your platform for Cloud managed infrastructure and simple solutions. ASA is your platform for granular control and deep visibility.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Cons

Vendor's Interest First

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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

How much do users love Cisco Secure Firewall?

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

Amenda S.

Cisco is one of the best firewall solutions.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Oluwanbe O.

Great Firewall but upcoming UTM

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kevin A.

Cover all the bases really well.

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