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As of January 2025, the mindshare of Cisco Secure Firewall in the Firewalls category stands at 5.8%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Educational Organization
36%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
5%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
University
4%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Healthcare Company
3%
Retailer
3%
Construction Company
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Media Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Non Profit
2%
Hospitality Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%

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JT
Network Administration Lead at Forest County Potawatomi Community
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Oct 13, 2019
Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network

Pros

"The most valuable features of Cisco firewalls are the IPS and IDS items. We find them very helpful. Those are the biggest things because we have some odd, custom-made products in our environment. What we've found through their IPS and IDS is that their vulnerability engines have caught things that are near-Zero-day items, inside of our network."

Cons

"The worst part of the entire solution, and this is kind of trivial at times, is that management of the solution is difficult. You manage FireSIGHT through an internet browser. I've had Cisco tell me to manage it through Firefox because that's how they develop it. The problem is, depending on the page you're on, they don't function in the same way. The pages can be very buggy, or you can't resize columns in this one, or you can't do certain things in that one. It causes a headache in managing it."
Daniel Going - PeerSpot user
Managing architect at Capgemini
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jul 7, 2022
Is intuitive in terms of troubleshooting, easy to consume, and stable

Pros

"The deep packet inspection is useful, but the most useful feature is application awareness. You can filter on the app rather than on a static TCP port."

Cons

"Licensing is complex, and I'd like it to be simplified. This is an area for improvement."
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EV
IT Technical Manager at Adventist Health
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Oct 5, 2021
Product discussed: 7.0
Stops threats immediately and gives us more granularity on what those threats might be

Pros

"Firepower NGFW has improved my organization in several ways. Before, we were trying to stamp out security threats and issues, it was a one-off type of way to attack it. I spent a lot of manpower trying to track down the individual issues or flare-ups that we would see. With Cisco's Firepower Management, we're able to have that push up to basically one monitor and one UI and be able to track that and stop threats immediately. It also gives us a little more granularity on what those threats might be. "

Cons

"One of the few things that are brought up is that for the overall management, it would be great to have a cloud instance of that. And not only just a cloud instance, but one of the areas that we've looked at is using an HA type of cloud. To have the ability to have a device file within a cloud. If we had an issue with one, the other one would pick up automatically."
RV
Principal Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Feb 28, 2023
Is stable and not vague, and helps to consolidate tools and applications

Pros

"The stability is very good; there's no vagueness. Either it works or it doesn't, and it's also very easy to find out why."

Cons

"We use the FTD management platform for the boxes. The GUI that manages multiple Firepower boxes could be improved so that the user experience is better."
Jordan De Sousa - PeerSpot user
Network Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Mar 6, 2023
Helped with the consolidation of tools and has a great dashboard

Pros

"The most valuable Cisco Secure Firewall features are options, features, and ease of deployment because it's an appliance."

Cons

"Cisco Secure Firewall's integration with cloud providers has room for improvement. We could do more in terms of integration, for example, if we had a tag on an instance. "
JB
Enterprise Architect at People Driven Technology Inc
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Aug 9, 2022
Puts controls in place to prevent users from clicking on the wrong link

Pros

"I'm a big fan of SecureX, Cisco's platform for tying together all the different security tools. It has a lot of flexibility and even a lot of third-party or non-Cisco integration. I feel like that's a really valuable tool."

Cons

"They could improve by having more skilled, high-level engineers that are available around the clock. I know that's an easy thing to say and a hard thing to do. "
JS
Senior Network Engineer at Orvis
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Oct 28, 2019
Policy rulesets are key, and upgrades are relatively seamless in terms of packet loss

Pros

"The information coming from Talos does a good job... I like the fact that Cisco is working with them and getting the information from them and updating the firewall."

Cons

"Our latest experience with a code upgrade included a number of bugs and issues that we ran into. So more testing with their code, before it hits us, would help."
Josh Schmookler - PeerSpot user
Network Engineer at Aton Computing
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 18, 2023
Provides excellent visibility, helps to respond to threats faster, and their support is also fantastic

Pros

"FMC is very good in terms of giving a lot of visibility into what the firewall is seeing, what it's stopping, and what it's letting through. It lets the administrator have a little bit of knowledge of what's coming in or out of the device. It's excellent."

Cons

"The policies module in FMC specifically isn't the most user-friendly. Coming from Cisco ASA, Cisco ASA is a little bit easier to use. When you get into particularly complex deployments where you have a lot of different interfaces and all that kind of stuff, it's a little bit tricky. Some usability improvements there would be nice. "
Dibyendu Roy - PeerSpot user
Senior Network Administrator in the non-profit industry
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
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