Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Reviews

The Integrated Configuration Environment (ICE) is good along with the security packs.

The logs are very helpful when investigating problems.

The GUI needs to be improved, and I'd like to see better performance particularly with VMware installation. There are slowness issues. 

Cisco firewalls use old ESR or a Linux system, and there are problems with encryption. When we switch on encryption, the throughput goes down.

It would be good to have information on the correlation of logs for a botnet attack, for example.

I've been using it for five years.

I would give stability a seven out of ten because sometimes things will be missing after deployment. The use of HA causes problems.

Scalability is not an issue as long as you are able to buy additional licenses. Ten percent of our customers use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, and we have large accounts with 50% of their end users behind this firewall.

Cisco's technical support is not reliable. Some engineers know the issue you're dealing with and are able to help, and others are not.

Depending on the environment, the initial setup can be complex.

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center has the best price on the market.

We looked at Panorama Firewall Management by Palo Alto and FortiManager by Fortinet. All of the secure firewall products seem to be the same, but Panorama and FortiManager are more reliable and have a few more features.

Overall, I would rate Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center at seven out of ten. 

I use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to manage my perimeter firewalls and my data center firewalls.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the intrusion prevention system.

The initial setup could be simplified.

The interface is an area that could be improved.

Monitoring live events or event logging needs improvement as well.

We are using version 664.

It's a pretty stable product.

We have 20 people using this solution in our organization.

The support is good. They are always good.

I would rate technical support an eight out of ten.

We also use Fortinet products.

The initial setup is midway complex and straightforward.

The deployment in a large environment took a week approximately.

We have a team of two staff members to maintain and deploy this solution.

We completed the installation in-house. We did not use an integrator or reseller.

I would rate Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center an eight out of ten.

We use this solution to protect our servers. 

The firewall itself is valuable as is the applied policy inside the firewall. All companies are looking to protect their data centers from unapproved access or server misuse and this product works.

I think the IOS and the deploy option could be improved. They should also consider working on the batteries. It's not helpful most of the time. Cisco's competitors have more features and they give more thought to their solutions.

I've been using this solution for four years. 

The stability of this product is good. 

The solution is scalable, if I need to add users or add licenses, it's flexible.

Cisco technical support is good. Let's just say that the support is very helpful. Maybe the most helpful support in the network. 

The initial deployment was quite complicated and I believe it could be simplified. 

Cisco products are generally quite expensive. 

From my perspective, it's a true commander and I like Cisco. All the treatment is available on the internet.

I rate this solution a nine out of 10.

The solution is easy to use. 

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center needs to reduce its price. 

I have been using the product for more than ten years. 

I rate the tool's stability an eight out of ten. 

I rate the product's scalability an eight out of ten. 

I rate the tool's deployment a nine out of ten. It is easy and was completed in minutes. 

I rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten. The licensing costs are yearly. 

Our clients for Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center are medium to large businesses. It is a very scalable and reliable solution. I rate it a ten out of ten. 

We use the solution for network security and firewall management. 

The tool helps with internet access protection. 

The first version had a lot of bugs, but the recent versions have sorted them out.                                                           

I used Fortinet FortiManager before Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's deployment takes a day to complete. The installation can be completed in one to two hours. 

With DevOps, migration from old to new applications is easier. I rate the overall product a nine out of ten. The appliance can perform its main functions as expected, and the performance management features in the next version make it easier to monitor multiple windows and identify issues.