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Cisco Secure Firewall

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10
Category
Cisco Secure Firewall
8.1 /10

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 Next Generation Firewall category

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Cisco Secure Firewall Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
92%
Negotiation and Contract:
79%
Conflict Resolution:
90%
Strategy & Innovation:
87%
Service Experience:
90%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 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?

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1% Negative
6% Neutral
93% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Trustworthy
  • Security Protects
  • Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Virtual Private Network

85

Advanced Threat Protection

83

Deep Packet Inspection

83

Encrypted Data Control

81

Network Access Control

81

Application Control

81

Virtual Firewall

80

Web Content Filtering

80

Identity Based Control

80

Off Premise Cloud Firewalls

79

Vulnerability Detection

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Quality of Features

84

Business Value Created

84

Vendor Support

83

Ease of Data Integration

80

Ease of Implementation

80

Breadth of Features

80

Usability and Intuitiveness

78

Ease of IT Administration

78

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

76

Ease of Customization

74

Cisco Secure Firewall Reviews

Sanjeev K.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Easy to use and user experience is very good

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

Great user experience and user friendly

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Robust web security onsite or in the cloud

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing, everything is great

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go for it, it is great

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Over Delivered
  • Reliable

Anthony O.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Superb efficacy, but comes at a cost.

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

The superb threat intelligence provided by Cisco talos, the sandboxing integrations with threat grid and now also that you can include orchestration worflows through API integrations with SecureX XDR.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Granularity in policy. Clear and intuitive user interface with Mirepower management centre.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The FTD software images have been somewhat "buggy" historically,. Thankfully the reliability issues here seem to have vastly improved over the past 12 months.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure the partner spec'ing the solution uses the performance calculate from Cisco rather than the data sheet numbers. Advanced services being enabled will have a big impact on CPU Utilisation.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Client's Interest First

Sarah M.

  • Role: Public Sector
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Cisco Firewalls provides security to enterprises.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

My overall expertise with Cisco secure firewall has been quite amazing. It’s an advanced level firewall that detects most levels of malware’ and supplies protection against them. It’s quite reliable and secure. The options which I prefer most concerning the merchandise are 1. The firewall is often used in either of the 3 ways i.e. you’ll use it locally, remotely, or by using cloud 2. URL filtering and sandbox features provided are quite economical and useful 3. CLI commands can be used terribly simply 4. Disaster recovery is sort of sturdy because of automated backups.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cisco ASA is a cloud-based advanced firewall system to shield from outside networks and the ability to modify the NAT in numerous ways. This is often an extremely reliable tool and safe to attach from anywhere. Permits users to safe remote connect through VPN and protect them from any threats from the surface networks. Cisco's technical team is extremely responsive and provided plenty of coaching material and documentation for smooth learning and simple use. It’s advanced scanning options and can troubleshoot anytime on a real-time basis.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The user interface lags someday which might be irritating. Not a lot of simple to learn, user coaching is needed. License is sort of expensive. The Management console went through several changes throughout the time once Cisco bought Snort. Similar systems from alternative vendors, in terms of age and price, didn’t have these issues. Weak UTM options and has to be used with a firepower engine to operate as a UTM.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

My recommendation for different customers would be if their organization is looking for a tool that may give company-wide security and threat detection in a very economical and secure approach they should definitely attempt Cisco secure firewall.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Inspires Innovation

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