Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) Reviews

Our primary use case is securing the network. It has a deep learning intelligence ability to filter packages and traffic coming to networks and to different workstations in networks. 

This solution is deployed on-premises. 

The most valuable feature is its IPS ability. You are able to balance security and connectivity. 

The CLI, the console line interface, of the FTD could be improved. It's very complex, so without a GUI, it doesn't work well. I would like it to be more simple. 

As far as additional features or next releases, I think the price could be cheaper. 

We have been using this solution for more than eight years. 

This product is stable. 

This product is very scalable. 

Cisco's technical support is very, very fast. 

Before implementing Cisco, we used Fortigate and Check Point. 

The installation is straightforward. You have to install the device, but if you want to actually manage it, you need a GUI for it. For deployment, you will need two engineers, maximum. 

We implemented this solution through an in-house team and deployed it ourselves. 

We pay for the IPS license to use this solution. 

I rate this product a nine out of ten, and would recommend this product to others who are considering using it. 

We use this solution for traffic inspection and searching.

It's coming to its end of life. We will be considering another solution because it is no longer scalable.

While it is stable, I would like it to be even more stable.

I have been using this solution for 10 years.

Cisco NGIPS is a stable solution. We have not had any issues since we have been using it.

It is no longer scalable because it has gone end of life.

We have approximately six locations. We have close to 2,000 users.

We are satisfied with the technical support.

I was not involved in the installation.

We have a team of four of five, including four engineers, and one supervisor to maintain this solution.

It could be less expensive.

We do pay for licensing yearly, but since it is at its end of life, there are no license implications until we purchase a new solution.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I would rate Cisco NGIPS an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution as a firewall. It's for company security.

The solution is easy to use.

We have found the product to be quite stable. 

The installation process is not difficult.

The solution would be better if it offered customers more integrations and more signatures.

I've been using the solution for around four years. It's been a while. It's useful for anomaly detection, impact inspection, signatures, and stuff like that.

The stability of the product is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. the performance is good and we consider it reliable. 

We have around 2,000 users in our organization using the solution.

We have contacted Cisco technical support in the past. Their support is the best in the market. We are very satisfied with the level of service they provide to their clients. 

We are using both Cisco and Fortinet.

It's very straightforward and very easy to set yo the solution. It's not overly complex. 

It took us one to two days at a maximum to install everything and to get everything going. 

We have two technicians and three engineers that can handle any deployment or maintenance tasks.

We handled the setup ourselves. We did not require the assistance of any integrators or consultants. It was all done in-house. 

We have a subscription for the signatures and footprints. 

We are a customer and an end-user.

We always use two older versions than the latest in case the latest has bugs or issues.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

I would recommend this product to other users and companies. 

Our customers use it for VBN and network as well.

I've found the performance and stability to be the most valuable features of Cisco NGIPS. It is scalable as well.

The price could be improved.

I've been providing this solution for about five years.

It is a stable solution.

It is scalable.

My experience with technical support has been okay.

Installation is straightforward and took half a day.

The pricing could be improved. Our customers have a yearly license.

It is a good product, and I would recommend it. I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We use this product to prevent unwanted traffic and to define policies.

The tracking intelligence feature is very good. This solution provides us with the opportunity to detect threats in real-time. 

Some Next-Generation Firewall solutions come with Intrusion Prevention. It would be nice if Cisco NGIPS included that. 

I have been using this solution for almost one year. 

Cisco's support is unmatched. There are very few companies that can match their support. 

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of nine. 

We replaced an ASA with Firepower managed by FMC with NGIPS, and we're also using it for advanced security, like anti-malware protection and IPS. 

We used to have different solutions integrated together between Cisco and non-Cisco, or Cisco and a third party. We now have an all-in-one which is kind of nice. 

I believe the IPS is a valuable function, because they update the signatures all the time and it's very granular. This is a good, stable solution and it's always up to date with all the security features.

I think the GUI user interface could be improved and the login is not very user friendly. They could maybe improve on that. 

The stability is good, we haven't had any problems. 

I think scalability is good although we only have a couple of people in our company that use it - the IT Manager and myself.  

The technical support is very good. I've never had issues with Cisco support, they're the best. 

The initial setup is straightforward, it took a few hours. As the consultant, I deployed the solution. 

I'm not sure of the licensing costs, I know we have a three-year subscription. 

Compared with other solutions, this is very good. 

I rate this product a nine out of 10. 

I work for a system integrator and Cisco NGIPS is one of the products that we implement for our clients. This is a solution for enterprise networks and it has a lot of advanced features including security intelligence feeds and DNS security.

This product can be integrated with other solutions from the Cisco portfolio including Cisco ISE and SecureX. The integration with the Cisco portfolio is very helpful. Cisco ISE will give full control in any network and it can be used to isolate any infected or misbehaving users automatically.

Multi-internet line load balancing should be supported. It is available from other vendors and should be included with this product.

This is one of the most stable solutions in the firewall world. 

Cisco takes scalability into consideration. My clients vary in size from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises.

The best support that I have ever dealt with is from Cisco. I am very satisfied with their service.

I have experience with a lot of network security products. These include solutions by Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Forcepoint.

The initial setup is very simple and in one or two hours, it can be up and running.

The licensing can be billed annually or in multi-year contracts such as three, four, or five years.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

There are both options of cloud or on-premise solutions. I usually do the on-premise solution. We have others who do the cloud solution. If you want to deploy and protect your network from threats and protect your neighbor, that's one of the uses that we employ. With that, you have Security Intelligence, you have Intelligence, you have an Intrusion Prevention System. In the recent upgrade of Firepower, we have 3.0. You can use that to protect the internal network or if you want to protect your servers. 

We use the Security Intelligence feature. We also use the Cisco AMP for Networks, which is used with the ITL certificate. You can use third-party integrations with the Firepower, about security. You can use the STIX format. With the STIX, you can add emergency threats to rules. This includes malware detection which has a third-party Security Intelligence platform. Included are reporting for the last seven days, V shell, and phishing tank. Cybercrime tracker is to check if any company or domain has a bad reputation on the internet. And it can give that information to the Firepower. You can use Security Intelligence to protect the network. It has preprocessors about security. They have a preprocessor for the SCADA. Cisco has evolved a lot in that area over the last few years.

The SSL decrypt could be improved, but it's normal. All the devices in our platform need a lot of memory or CPU to do the SSL decrypt. This is an issue to improve in all platforms, not only in Cisco. They have SecureX which can be integrated with other platforms. But I think the improvement of SecureX in the platforms is needed. SecureX is really new but I think that needs a little improvement.

We have been using Cisco NGIPS or Firepower NGIPS for five years. We use the latest version.

It's working correctly, it's working without problems. You can buy another Firepower, and you can do a cluster configuration. And it's really easy, we don't have any problems.

Cisco support is really awesome. I have another vendor like Honeywell. I really hate when I call Honeywell. But when I call Cisco, I really appreciate it a lot when I talk with the support engineers because the personnel have really good skills and have a really good passion. Cisco support is awesome.

I think the installation of Firepower NGIPS is really easy. You configure the device, you connect that to the Firepower Management Center, and you have deployed the Firepower.

If they're looking for a platform that can protect from attack, from external or insiders who want to attack the network, I think Firepower is a good solution. With  Security Intelligence, other security features make that platform an awesome platform. I would give Cisco NGIPS a rating of nine on a scale of ten. I think no one platform is perfect. I wouldn't give a 10 to a solution ever because 10 is 100%, and I think no one solution can 100% secure. Not because the platform is not working correctly. Because I think no one platform can be 10 by 10.