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Cisco Security Cloud Control pros and cons

Vendor: Cisco

4.1 out of 5

15 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Cisco Security Cloud Control centralizes ASA upgrades and facilitates bulk policy management, streamlining complex tasks. Integrated templates and automation minimize user intervention, enhancing efficiency and focus. Active monitoring with automated notifications quickly identifies network issues. Cisco Defense Orchestrator needs improved change views, third-party device integration, and centralized logging. An ASA upgrade repository and enhanced reporting would elevate usability, avoiding FMC dependence and simplifying updates without Cisco outreach for upgrades.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Cisco Security Cloud Control allows pushing one policy or rule out to several devices at a time.

It saves time by doing operations on multiple firewalls simultaneously and making bulk changes convenient.

The centralized upgrades feature for ASAs automates the process, making it efficient.

Cisco is attentive to resolving customer issues quickly.

The automation feature reduces user intervention, allowing focus on other tasks.

CONS

When changes are made locally to the firewall, Cisco Security Cloud Control doesn't show which configuration is currently running without manual checks.

Issues arise when Cisco Security Cloud Control doesn't flag problems with MX devices blocking Windows Update, causing time loss.

Cisco Security Cloud Control could centralize device control for third-party products easier.

An official report feature is lacking, impacting daily monitoring and reporting, especially in ASA.

Cisco Security Cloud Control lacks an on-premises deployment option, which is an issue for customers in regions preferring non-cloud solutions.

Cisco Security Cloud Control Pros review quotes

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jul 10, 2019

The most valuable feature is that you can push one policy or one rule out to several devices at a time.

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TE

CTO at SECURE NETWORKERS LLC

Jul 10, 2019

There are a lot of templates that are already built-in. They give you quick-to-create and quick-to-apply policies that are typically a little more complicated for people.

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Architect1152942

Systems Architect at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 26, 2019

The ability to do operations on multiple firewalls at once is valuable because it saves time and mental effort. The solution's ability to make bulk changes makes it very convenient to manage things at once on multiple targets.

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Network and Data Centre Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2019

The most valuable feature is being able to do centralized upgrades on the ASAs. We can select all of those ASAs, and say, "Upgrade these ASAs at this scheduled time." It will copy down the ASA image, ASDM image, and then do the upgrade and failovers, and then put it all back into service as required at a scheduled time. It automates that process for us.

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I.T. Manager at Egypt Foods group

Jul 25, 2019

This product provides excellent centralized device controls and reporting.

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JM

Network and Security Specialist at CONNECTED TECHNOLOGY

Jan 7, 2020

We use a lot of image upgrades. We take some 20 devices and then we update everything at once, including the policies. We apply policies for groups. For certain groups, like anti-viruses, we send out policies and apply them to every single device. It's really easy and simple.

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Hamed Khakipour

Sr. Network Engineer at Vocera

Aug 12, 2019

I like the upgrade feature. That is pretty valuable to me because I have dual ASAs and when I go through CDO it does it for me pretty well. It's all done in the back-end and I don't really have to be involved. I just initiate, pick the image, and I pick when I want it done and it just does it, whether I have a single ASA or have a dual ASA.

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IS

Network Administrator at Texas Hydraulics, Inc.

Aug 13, 2019

The bulk changes feature is definitely the most valuable.

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Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 13, 2019

The initial setup was straightforward. We spun up the VM onsite. We generated the key that it needed to talk to the Cloud Orchestrator. After that, as I started adding devices, it was relatively quick and easy.

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DK

Network Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 13, 2019

If we have a firewall go down, I can hop into CDO, pull the latest configuration off and apply it. That's really good. It helps save time.

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Cisco Security Cloud Control Cons review quotes

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jul 10, 2019

If I make a change locally to the firewall, CDO gives an alarm or an error message and says there's a change in compliance: "The firewall has this configuration but the last time it was compiled it had that configuration." That view of new changes versus the old could be better... I had to log in manually, locally on the firewall, to check which version, which configuration was actually running. I couldn't see it in CDO.

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TE

CTO at SECURE NETWORKERS LLC

Jul 10, 2019

We had some MX devices that were blocking Windows Update from happening. We found out it was a Meraki issue, but it would have been nice if it had been flagged for us: "Hey, these updates are failing because the MX is blocking it." It wasn't a huge problem, but there was a loss of our time as well as the fact that the updates didn't get pushed out... It would have been nice if CDO had let us know that that was an issue.

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Architect1152942

Systems Architect at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 26, 2019

I've found dozens of bugs over the year we've been using it. The more I use it for different things, the more problems I find... Most of the problems have to do with the user interface. A lot of thought and work has gone into the back-end component to make the product do what it's intended to do, but the way it is presented for use hasn't gotten nearly as much thought to make it smart and bug-free.

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Network and Data Centre Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 24, 2019

There could be some slight improvements to navigation. In some of the navigation you've got to go back to be able to get into where you need to be once you've made a change. If I make a change, I've then got to go back to submit and send the change.

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I.T. Manager at Egypt Foods group

Jul 25, 2019

It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily.

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JM

Network and Security Specialist at CONNECTED TECHNOLOGY

Jan 7, 2020

CDO doesn't have a report, an official report that I can check daily. It has another module called FTD, but it doesn't have that specifically for ASA. In the reporting, there are a lot of things that aren't there. There is also room for improvement in the daily monitoring.

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Hamed Khakipour

Sr. Network Engineer at Vocera

Aug 12, 2019

The main thing that would useful for us would the logging and monitoring. I have to check it out, to get the beta, because I don't have access to them... I wanted CDO to be a central place so where I could do everything but right now I don't think that's possible. I really don't want to go back and forth between this and FMC. Maybe the logging portion, when I look at it, will give me some similarities.

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IS

Network Administrator at Texas Hydraulics, Inc.

Aug 13, 2019

It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances.

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Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 13, 2019

When logging into the device, we sort of had problems with it staying in sync. If somebody made a change onsite, it wouldn't do an automatic sync. It would have to wait, as you would have to do a manual sync up.

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DK

Network Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 13, 2019

I'd like CDO to be the one-stop-shop where we could do all the configurations easily. It would be nice, for ASA upgrades, if we could do them from a central repository and not have to reach out to Cisco. That would be a definite plus.

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