Little to no performance hit is detected by users when Cisco Secure Firewall is implemented. We have users that are very vocal and will definitely let us know if there is an issue affecting performance. We have had no issues with implementing and day to day use of Cisco Secure Firewall. Users …

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

Having a single solution that provides access to all the features such as VPN, log management, and analytics is a massive boon. Centralizing these allowed us to simplify our stack and reduce potential conflicts that result from running too many platforms. We have made extensive use of all these …

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Security and Performance

Well, we're healthcare, so obviously privacy and just securing that and because it's a big target for ransomware and any viruses, whatever, malware, just trying to protect not only the data itself, but also the hospitals and their being able to just take care of people. If there's a …

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

I think the biggest thing for us was because we've always used Cisco firewalls, we were definitely biased to just keep going in that direction because interoperability with what we already have, because we're all Cisco everywhere, what we were used to do, which ended up not being the …

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Security and Performance

We have witnessed where some applications are impacted by inspection but we were able to leverage the robust configuration tools to address the issue.

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

I tried to use some API features for some supplemental and even things like snmp setup, but no luck.

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Security and Performance

In my experience, Cisco Secure Firewall's advanced security features have had a significant positive impact on our business by providing robust protection against a wide range of threats without compromising network performance, like IPS, app control and SSL decryption. These features are …

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

Mostly working with logs via Splunk, it's a well designed feature, able to drill down and see various categorizations. It helps identify blocked traffic, anomalous behaviors and helps remediate those and possibly quarantine the offending users. VPN is quite easy to set up and manage, and every new …

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Security and Performance

We are using IPS which is great tool to drop malicious attempts. Moreover, we are using TALOS so we can block thousands of malicious websites. Also the 0 trust concept helps our customers to have just the right access to the right applications. It has a great impact on our customer business and …

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

We are using usually policy based site to site VPN. Which has a great impact on our customer business as they can create a secure encrypted connection through the insecure internet. They are also able to connect their employees to the right applications and this can happen trough gradual access.

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Security and Performance

Next generation features permit to raise security levels for business application and for critical services.

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

These features simplify our day by day operation and raise the security level. VPN also simplifies remote access and remote working for employees.

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Security and Performance

Centralised management, unified policy and direct internet access are good.

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Security and Performance

the firepower 1010 is really good to ophold 1 gig connection

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

They work pretty well, as I see I had some trouble getting the certificate to work and getting it in the system right.
Miss that we can download software from a website so the computer could get the VPN.

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Security and Performance

We had a lot of issues wen we activated the Cisco Secure Firewall security features (longer delay, traffic unreasonable blocked). But it got better with the last updates and can be used more and more.

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

Very useful. We are using VPN (Site-2-Site and Cisco AnyConnect). Logging is okay but could be improved (Logs are causing a log of traffic between Cisco Secure Firewall and FMC)

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Security and Performance

We don't use those tools because, in our environment, they are very buggy, and if we enable, for example, SSL inspection, skype doesn't work anymore. We use Logging to a syslogserver and besides the confusing configuration this works really well.

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

VPN is working really well. We use the Cisco Secure Firewall as the entry point to our organisation. For example if someone works from home and they need data from the company can just connect with the secure client to the Cisco Secure Firewall of their branch and they can access the data. Log …

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For the VPN is a little bit harder to find the configuration and to make them, it a little bit ambiguous. The log are easy to understand.

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Security and Performance

We using Intrusion policies on critical networks and rules and working great. However, this kind of solutions can exhaust the Cisco Secure Firewall if you use it on all of the rules.
So only the most secure networks should include rules with Allow (Snort) and implement intrusion policy, less …

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

We using log management only from the listed solutions.
Log management working great on FMC for a number of rules and users, above the recommended rules the log should be forwarded to external log collector, because FMC cannot handle it.

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Security and Performance

Because we are using old solution we still have this issue but we are know that can be bypass with new solution of NGFW.

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

We are very satisfied with DAPs features that are used with AnyConnect VPN.

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Security and Performance

The performance of the Cisco Secure Firewall FTD is great, the snort engine works stably and the monitoring from the firewall management center works reliably. Unfortunately, the software is sometimes a bit buggy. Software updates and the deployment of new rules take a comparatively long time …

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

In addition to Cisco Secure Access, we also use FTD's SSL VPN via the secure client. This can be easily installed and rolled out via the SW distribution. The policies can be administered centrally. The VPN solution makes reliable work possible, and it's also good that the secure client has many …

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Security and Performance

We had an experience on AMP and Intrusion Prevention. AMP advanced security feature is best for us. On the other hand we are using IPS feature for 5 years and most of time meet the expactation of us but there is much more improvements they should be done. We will try to use url filterint fearure …

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Security and Performance

With Cisco Secure Firewall, some of them are buggy, so there is a lot of TS but some of them are great

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Security and Performance

We have had great results with our Cisco Secure Firewall. Like all businesses, we are constantly having to ask it to do more, and it always seems up to the task. We have inspection turned on, and it doesn’t seem to bog anything down. Basically, the only bottlenecks created by our Cisco Secure …

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

We try to use some of the analytics, but I would say analytics and logs are probably the Cisco Secure Firewall’s greatest weakness. We had to stand up an Elastic stack primarily to get us insight into firewall activity because the built-in tools are too unreliable. We don’t use the VPN feature.

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Goals and Objectives

Security is part of all of our processes, not an add on. We make it part of our daily work to improve our posture whenever possible. Cybersecurity goes hand and hand with availability and providing services to our customers, so cybersecurity is intertwined with and a part of any investment we …

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Expected Outcomes

Cisco is a proven name in the IT industry, particularly when it comes to switching and firewalls. We had successfully used Cisco’s ASA Firewall for years, so they had a definite lead when it came time to upgrade. Cisco’s NGFW offering in Firepower, with it’s ease of management and versatility made …

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Reason for Selection

Cisco’s proven track record in our organization and the ease of management were huge factors, but the versatility really won us over. The options for licensing inspection, security intelligence feeds, content filtering and possible VPN made it a pretty easy decision at the time. I’m sure other …

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Cybersecurity and AI

It will definitely be the proverbial two edged sword. AI should drastically assist and improve automation and defenses, helping the defenders…but threat agents also have AI to assist with end arounds and attempts to breach. Basically I think the game just got faster, and it’s up to the good guys …

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Resilience

I believe resilience is one of the key factors in cyber security. It’s not about ‘whether’ you’ll have an incident, it’s about how you recover and how bad you let it be when it happens. Resilience is going to determine whether you have to shut your doors after an event or not.

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Leadership in Resilience

Leaders can build more cyber resilience by utilizing multiple and multi-faceted layers. Following the standard cyber model and utilizing layers such as edge, end point protection, physical layers, etc are all definitely part of it. But layers of firewalls, network detection and inspection are also …

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Security and Performance

We have never had any issues with the performance even when the inspections are enabled.

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

Yes, used them and the logging has been very helpful in identifying issues. I just wish the logs presentation was a bit better.

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Goals and Objectives

We use the Cisco firewall to facilitate our users to Securely connect from remote locations. We use it to build Site 2 Site VPN tunnels with our remote location offices.
Its used to perform IPS inspection on all traffic.
Without all these measures, our security posture will be compomised and would …

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Security and Performance

The performance of the new firewalls is amazing and meets all our requirements for the business. But the new advancements Cisco has made to its security portfolio tell of the true journey that has been made to ensure we can stay protected.

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Cisco Security Ecosystem

Yes we actively use Cisco Annyconnect via our ISE services so the transition to Secure Client is what we were looking forward to and after seeing the latest updates at Cisco Live 23, we have certainly made the right decision. We intend to use this actively for our remote workers to keep their …

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Security and Performance

When We do not have the proper security filter policy in the network, the business will have a big much impact in revenue or many things happen terribly because every day, sometimes some of my customers, they have their SLA, the customer like the enterprise or banking, if they got the attack, they …

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Resilience

Resilience in cyber security is about more than just implementing the latest security technologies, it also involves training employees on security best practices and cultivating a culture of security awareness and a willingness to adapt to changing threats. By building resilience, organisations …

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Leadership in Resilience

To be resilient, organizations must take a holistic approach to cyber security, including having incident response plans, training employees on security best practices, regularly testing and assessing their security posture, and continuously updating their security technologies and policies to …

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Provide granular content filtering based on user roles
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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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