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Cisco Security Cloud Control pros and cons

Vendor: Cisco

4.1 out of 5

14 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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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

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Francisco Delos Santos

Security Engineer at Metrobank

Feb 17, 2025

The most valuable feature is the automation, as it reduces user intervention and allows us to focus on other tasks.

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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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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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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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Technical Director - Cyber Security at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Feb 28, 2022

Cisco Defense Orchestrator has useful guides for the steps that need to follow by users.

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Cyber Security Pre-Sales Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 13, 2020

The most valuable feature is the Intrusion prevention.

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BN

Product Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 26, 2020

With Cisco Defense Orchestrator, we can manage the complete Cisco Security solution. It provides a simple and centralized way to manage all products.

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HL

Hasnae Lamrani Alaoui

Presales Engineer at DataProtect

Sep 22, 2019

If our server is blocked, this solution shows us why it is blocked and allows us to update the network routing.

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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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Cisco Security Cloud Control Cons review quotes

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Francisco Delos Santos

Security Engineer at Metrobank

Feb 17, 2025

Cisco Defense Orchestrator should be made more user-friendly overall.

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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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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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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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Technical Director - Cyber Security at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Feb 28, 2022

Cisco Defense Orchestrator can improve by providing more support for third-party security components.

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reviewer1423293

Cyber Security Pre-Sales Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 13, 2020

They need to work on the user interface. It needs to be improved to make it more user-friendly.

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BN

Product Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 26, 2020

They can centralize all products and provide a correlation about an incident and the response. They can also provide an on-premises solution. Currently, Cisco Defense Orchestrator is just for cloud deployments, not for on-premises deployments. Customers have to manage it on the cloud. We are based in Vietnam, and most of the customers here prefer to have on-premises deployments. Customers, especially from banking and government sectors, do not prefer to do anything on the cloud. Some of the small enterprises use the cloud.

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HL

Hasnae Lamrani Alaoui

Presales Engineer at DataProtect

Sep 22, 2019

The dashboard needs to be more customizable to provide better reporting for our network.

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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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