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What is Cisco Secure Firewall?
Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Cisco Firepower NGFW) is a firewall product that integrates with other Cisco security offerings. It provides Advanced Malware protection, including sandboxing environments and DDoS mitigation. Cisco also offers a Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System, which provides…
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What is Cisco Secure Firewall?
Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Cisco Firepower NGFW) is a firewall product that integrates with other Cisco security offerings. It provides Advanced Malware protection, including sandboxing environments and DDoS mitigation. Cisco also offers a Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System, which provides security across cloud environments using techniques like internal network segmentation. The firewall can be managed locally, remotely, and via the cloud. The product is scalable to the scope of the business needs.
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June 26, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall indispensible
Cisco Secure Firewall is indispensable in maintaining content filtering as required by regulation and securing our environment from malicious actors. Without Cisco Secure Firewall we would be completely vulnerable to anyone with malicious intent and wouldn't even have the visibility to know it was happening.
- Provide granular content filtering based on user roles
- Maintain up to date definitions
- Provide critical logging and visibility
- Admin portal could be more responsive in some areas
June 12, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
We have various access policies that we use for all DMZs. It also terminates our IP check tunnels to regional hospitals in our area that are used obviously for healthcare purposes. Those are the biggies that we use it for.
- It's been a big change for us because like I said, we've been using it about a year, I think. And we went from ASAs to this, so it was a big changeover from being able to do everything in CLI honestly, it's a bit clunky and more time consuming to have to configure things through the Gooey, which has been a pain point for us. But we've tried to automate as much as we can. What it does well is the analysis. The event, not event viewer, but unified event, that's what it is. Handy tool. Also the tunnel troubleshooting the site to site tunnel monitoring or troubleshooting, I can't remember what it's called. It's pretty good too. It's nice how it has some predefined commands in there. I'd say those are probably the things we like about it the most.
- A couple of things pop into my mind right away. We've had some pain points with CPU usage and actually have gone through the, it's not professional services, I can't remember what it's called now, but talking to them, trying to optimize things, haven't had a lot of luck with that right now. It's mostly been system when it's not service effecting, but it's just more of an annoyance for us. Another one, and it's a very trivial thing, but it's just a little bit of a pain or an annoyance is the windows, the popup windows, even though it looks like you can resize them, you can't resize them, which is super annoying. Having to scroll in 'em, the pages, not being able to change how many things are displayed on a page is a bit annoying. And having to scroll through pages on the plus side, the filtering is, helps offset that. But still just little annoying things. Yeah, I can't think of anything else that really is a pain point.
June 12, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
We generally use this product for our edge firewalls, data center interconnects along with our implementation of ISE segmentation. The Cisco Secure Firewall products help segment our access layer (users) from our compute and provides VPN and Internet access for our users. We utilize a combination of Firepower 9300s, 1100's and 3300's for these services.
- ACL integrations with user identity work well with Cisco's segmentation products such as Cisco ISE analytics along with its ability to incorporate pretty much anything you throw at it.
- Deployments on Cisco firewalls, if you make a policy change you have to do a deployment. Obviously you can do automated deployments for some things based on what's going on, but the deployment time is definitely the most frustrating thing. If I am to make a change on the firewall, just one line for example, one ACL, and if you have enough of those, it could take 40 to 45 minutes or more for it to go through. It can be a very stressful time. It may fail or may complete, but during that timeframe little is known as to the result until it finishes. This only generally occurs with deployments that have hundreds or thousands of preexisting ACL's. The newer software versions have improved on this deployment process.
June 11, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
It is our edge security solution, so for the internet, so in all of our egress points, we have the Cisco Secure Firewalls at each of the egress points. Also keeps potential threat actors out of our network.
- We use it for our remote VPN users and our site to site VPN, and we had an opportunity to replace it because we have some other firewalls that sit behind the Cisco ones, but we love the user interface and the way Cisco Umbrella ties in with the VPN agent. So we kept that and our users love the product because it's easy to use.
- I think the biggest thing has was the FMC for us because, which is the management console. Because when we originally purchased it, it was a Sourcefire product, and then Cisco purchased Sourcefire. And so we had to convert our current firewall versions over to a version that was supported with a new FMC and there wasn't a good migration path for that, and we ended up having to do it manually and it was very painful. But now that we're on the seven version when we went from six to seven, it's been so much easier and the integration is so much better. But that piece was just a bit painful.
June 11, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
A lot of migrations from ASA to FTD. Customers are looking for newer hardware models or they're looking to upgrade the firmware. Some of them are coming from different vendors, so they're coming from Palo to Cisco. We have to make recommendations on what a good comparable is from Palo or Fortinet to Cisco. Then we talk about software too. If they want to implement anything next gen, any integrations, just a whole bunch of other stuff.
- It has a nice interface. It's easy to use in my opinion. Going from ASA to FTD, it's gotten a lot easier to do. There's a lot of good material out there that Cisco has, a lot of tools as well, makes things easier.
- I can't think of anything.
June 07, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
We use Cisco FTDs for small branch implementations, DMZ, and edge.
- Object management
- HA
- Inspection
- Deployment speed
June 03, 2024
AO Review of Cisco Secure Firewall
Protect and secure the edge.
- Policy Control
- VPN Mgmt
- Real live data view. Worked well in ASA, didn't translate as well in FTD.
May 08, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall
It is our primary firewall, our first line of defense. We are a Cisco shop, we also have Cisco DNA and are looking at Cisco hyper shield possible in the near future. We have various Cisco ASAs as well.
- Intrusion detection
- Intrusion prevention
- Ease to update
- Ease to patch
- Firmware upgrades
May 08, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall review.
Replacing some older asa firewalls to bring more intelligence and visibility to the packet flow and a better set of policies to apply wherever needed.
- Deep inspection
- Signature update
- Rich database
- Better cli
- Better api documents
February 15, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall
We use the product for Geosegmentation for countries like China, Brazil, etc. We use basic prefilter policies and snort, currently we are considering integrating automation a bit more. We use ftds in addition to palo alto devices, so interoperability and integration is quite important for us. So far, the solution works for us with no major issues.
- Snort
- Troubleshooting
- Support
- Officially supported automation
- Simplification of Lina and Snort engines
- Global find option
February 14, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall
We are using Cisco Secure Firewall to protect our clients from cyber attacks.
- Packet filtering
- Ips
- Roosting device
- GUI is slow
- More simple
- Complex dashboard
February 12, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall
Cisco Secure Firewall is used for edge protection, identity management control access and for IPS and malware protection. We are also using Cisco Secure Firewall for vpn access and remote access filtering. Also communication within different site is done using IPsec VPN.
- Url filtering
- Malware analysis
- VPN connection
- Rule base filtering
- Remote access
- Identity management
- Cut trough portal
- GUI interface (FMC)
- Context or domain for smaller sensor
February 12, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall review
IPS solution for intrusion prevention
- Threat blocking
- Logging
- Security
- Rule setup
- Logging
- Monitoring
February 11, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall in Branch offices and Datacenter
We have 200+ FTDs deployed in branch offices and datacenters.
Addresses the performance issues related and improves user experience with direct internet access.
Centralised configuration management from FMC.
Integration with ISE and deploy policies based on identities.
Automate certain tasks using FMC APIs,
Addresses the performance issues related and improves user experience with direct internet access.
Centralised configuration management from FMC.
Integration with ISE and deploy policies based on identities.
Automate certain tasks using FMC APIs,
- PBR
- Access Policy
- Ease of management
- Ease of upgrade
February 09, 2024
A firewall that needs some improvements
I don't have it for one customer. I had a scenario with a customer that only wanted to use FDM and we have to build it by hand at that time there were no tools to help with that and also used postman scripts to configure it.
- Be a next gen firewall
- Layer 7 firewall
- Nice dashboard
- Context firewalling like asa
- Be more simple it its layout
- Take all the good things form the asa
- Finish the product so there is no need for making use of postman
February 09, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall
We are using the Cisco Secure Firewall in all of our production and office locations (around 200 locations) around the world, as our gateway and to secure our network. All traffic in our network is going over the firewalls and checked there. We are using a Cisco Firewall Management Center (FMC) to manage all of our firewalls globally in one tool.
- AnyConnect VPN
- Good overview over the centralized FMC
- Hardware is very stable (less failures)
- Lots of Bugs in multiple areas
- Deployment can be faster
- Configuration over CLI
February 09, 2024
By far not perfect but it gets better
We use the Cisco Secure Firewall as the secure Gateway. This means every vlan or network that we have needs to go over the firewall if it wants to enter an other network. We also use the Cisco Secure Firewall to establish Site to Site tunnels to different branches. We also use the Cisco Secure Firewall for Anyconnect access to our company.
- Access List
- AnyConnect access
- Policy overviews
- Some times some ACL just doesn't work
- Creating HA if one FW is already installed is not working
- Make Wildcardmask rules work at the moment it has a bug
February 09, 2024
Let’s Master IT
Allow traffic and users to access the resources that we have in out DMZ, implement traffic restrictions and block the truth actors that try to damage or render out services unavailable.
- Block traffic
- Allow users to access different resources
- Log the users activity
- More friendliest interface
- Easy access
- Rule making improvements
February 09, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall overview
We are using Cisco Secure Firewall as our Special network firewall.
The firewall is working without any issues, but the FMC Instance and Virtual machine had a few problems in the past. We opened several Cisco TAC Cases to solve those problems which affected:
-FMC DB reachability (deployment did not worked)
-FMC VM should be reinstalled
The firewall is working without any issues, but the FMC Instance and Virtual machine had a few problems in the past. We opened several Cisco TAC Cases to solve those problems which affected:
-FMC DB reachability (deployment did not worked)
-FMC VM should be reinstalled
- Handle a lot of VLANs, Zones without any issue
- L4 firewalling
- Packet capture, Packet tracert options
- Device management from FMC
- Layer 7 application filtering
- FMC instance
- FMC event logging
February 08, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall review
We are using Cisco as a 5525 with Cisco Secure Firewall. The single issue we are facing right now is CPU usage when Cisco Secure Firewall inspects the traffic or have performance tests. However we know that we can cover this issue with NGFW which are taken in consideration for the next year. Overall we are satisfied with Cisco Secure Firewall solution and and user experience.
- DAP
- UI
- CPU threading
- AI
February 07, 2024
Cisco FTD and FMC
In our organization, we use Cisco Secure Firewall and the Firewall Management Center for administration. Due to the structured configuration, the rules can be rolled out to multiple devices and systems simultaneously via the firewall management center. This makes work easier and saves time. We also install this solution for many customers.
- Easy administration of the Cisco Secure Firewall
- Developing workflows and automations thanks to the FMC API
- Versioning the configuration and rollback
- AI Integration is missing
- Import of objects
- Backup of the access control policy (FMC)
February 07, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall has good performance and protection.
I use Cisco Secure Firewall for protection.
- L7 protection
- L7
February 05, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
User experience problems, too much bugs problems in the every versions. We have 10 FTD, FXOS and 2 FMC devices. We have an experience on these devices for 5 years and ı had much problems every versions. There is no more information notification on devices so if you have a any problem you should submit a case. This is so time wasted.
- using snort engine
- Custome signature creation
- Confidential being product of cisco
- Gui interface should be more easily
- Less more bugs on ftd systems
- More strong API functionality
February 05, 2024
Cisco Secure Firewall Review
My scope of use case for Cisco Secure Firewall is protecting government health inside the network.
- apl control
- ease of use
- ease of implementation
- fmc
- https inspection
- HA
- core xl functionality
January 31, 2024
Cisco's modernization of one of their staples is as good as ever
Our organization uses Cisco Secure Firewall to protect our enterprise network. It has a ton of features that are very straightforward to use. It allows us to easily setup Access Lists determining what few services we let in. We also use Malware filtering, file inspection, and URL filtering to protect our public. Cisco Secure Firewall allows us to NAT our devices and servers that need an external connection, and even allows for different virtual interfaces to be setup as gateways for internal subnets.
- Easy to update configurations
- Automated backup and failover
- Intuitive Access Control
- Interface can be slow.
- Current version is buggy in regards to tracking connection events.
- File inspection isn't always intuitive to set up.
- An external logging system is required for true insight into activity.