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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87 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
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80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+89 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?
Pros
- Respectful
- Security Protects
- Trustworthy
- Fair
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Cisco Secure Firewall Reviews
Bharath D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2025
Transformer
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?
we are easily able to integrate with other devices like switches AP's and NAC
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Able to manage the console easily without any challenges and we are able to get the related KB article with respect to any integration
What do you dislike most about this product?
complications in user based policy and policy pushing slowness
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Ease of manage
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Fair
- Transparent
Cons
- Less Caring
- Vendor Friendly Policies
Omkar P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2025
Strong Threat Intelligence & Reliable Performance
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?
Cisco has better security intelligence, network discovery, more NGIPS rules, advanced VPN options, and easy troubleshooting, ensuring strong security with high performance
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Uses Cisco Talos for real-time threat detection and works well with other products like Cisco SecureX, Cisco Umbrella, AMP, ISE and AD
What do you dislike most about this product?
Complex Management, FMC is difficult for beginners, expensive licensing and hardware costs and signature updates and new features are slower than competitors
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Before buying you can test all features with a 90-day demo license. This helps you decide if it's worth the high hardware and license costs, based on your company’s size and needs
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
rabih a.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Effective and well built product!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?
Cisco firewalls are hard to use but once you learn how to use the CLI and GUI, it will be less complicated than any other firewall
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy for building tunnels and create rules in a very simple way.
What do you dislike most about this product?
log dashboard and gui features are kinda old. But they do the job right.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I personally worked with multiple firewalls. Cisco is the simplest so far between all of them and the most effective one and responds quickly.
Pros
- Respectful
- Client's Interest First
- Security Protects
- Reliable
Cons
- Charges for Enhancements
- Leverages Incumbent Status
