Cisco Sourcefire SNORT Reviews

We use the solution for IT security prevention systems. It comes with the Cisco next-generation firewall. We use Sourcefire as an IPS.

The solution provides visibility. The application’s environment hosted behind the firewall is very impressive. The protection is good.

I cannot disclose the use cases of the solutions in my company because we operate in the financial industry.

One of the significant benefits of using the tool in our company is the skill we get for Cisco's networking, troubleshooting, and implementation phases that we can easily acquire from the market. In Hong Kong, there are a lot of people who know about Cisco products. They are familiar with how to set it up and how to troubleshoot, as it is quite easy to acquire such skills. It is easy to get a skilled engineer to help us out.

Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is a powerful intrusion detection and prevention system that covers various network security threats. It simplifies the configuration process by offering pre-defined base configurations, including security and connectivity settings. These pre-configured settings serve as a starting point for users, allowing them to customize and fine-tune their security policies based on their needs. This feature streamlines the deployment process and ensures that users can quickly establish a robust security posture without building configurations from scratch. Additionally, the intuitive interface provides users with a clear understanding of the parameters they can adjust and the impact of their changes, facilitating efficient management of network security policies.

We use the solution to protect our virtual server funds.

The solution has improved our organization by helping us provide protection from our own internal networks and internal clients.

I work directly with clients, such as financial companies like banks, for example. Most of the time they want they're product to be on their premises, only in their local area.

In general, the features are all great. However, if I need to take hardware for ASA because they need to upgrade to Firepower, we want to create rules. For that, most of the time we go to the command line. Right now Firepower is working really hard on the grid. You can apply all those rules to the grid. Even if you want to monitor the logs, for example, the activity will tell you which particular user has been blocked because of that rule. Firepower's monitoring interface is very good because you can see each and every piece. ASA also had it, but there you needed to type the command and be under the server to see all that stuff. In Firepower, you have the possibility to go directly to the firewall. The way the monitoring is displayed is also very nice. The feature I appreciate most in Firepower is actually the grid. The grid has worked very well. 

The functionality they have deployed is also very good. They provide the possibility to have one manager for other firewalls, which is Firepower Management Center. I can manage many other firewalls from Firepower Management Center, by just logging on to the other device. That feature is also very great. 

The idea that they implement the malware protection inside the firewall is another great feature. This has the same features and functionality as they had for the IPS device. The way they deploy the AMP is also great because from there we can even go to the packet level, both to the header of the packet, as well as inside the packet, to see if there is any virus there. Right now, the firewall has the possibility to pick up inspection, not only on the header of the packet but off the packet itself. That feature is very great.

There are a lot of features that I really appreciate with Firepower, which is why I advise most of my customers to go with Firepower.

We primarily use this solution as an intrusion prevention system for external firewalls. We use it for that firewall IPS/IDS and deploy the solution on-premises.

The security landscape is changing, so the cloud can be improved. As we move, we try to adopt more cloud services and integrate everything, such as on-premise solutions, to get them to work with cloud solutions. The utopia is to see everything from one dashboard, but sometimes that's not very possible.

We use this solution, in conjunction with the Cisco Firepower 4000 series, for security in our data center. We also use it with a Cisco Firepower 2000 series for our VPN and internet access firewall.

The most valuable feature of this solution is support for everything in the same box, including IPS, High Availability, etc.

The product is primarily used for an IDS, Intrusion Detection Software, element.

You can do a lot of feasibility in terms of SSLI configuration which can be enabled.

You can encrypt and encrypt your data through Cisco Sourcefire so that your IPS solution can be effectively utilized.

Users have access to intelligent security automation as one of the features. It can easily automate your event impact assessment and your IPS policy tuning can be done as well as your network behavior analysis. They have introduced this intelligent security automation as part of that and then you can do a real-time contextual awareness. Basically, you can see a correlation of events that are created on your application, user devices, operating systems, or vulnerabilities. All of this real-time data can be captured including on your apps and port scans.

It is quite an intelligent product.

It can look into your north-south traffic in case of IPv6 attacks, DOS attacks, or buffer overflow. They say that it also supports against zero-day threats and items like that. They are up-to-date in terms of their threat protection, anti-bot, antivirus, and all kinds of signatures.

They have something called Firepower, which is advanced threat protection that they offer. It's a new subscription which we use for additional malware protection. It offers blocking capabilities and continuous analysis.

The solution is very stable.