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Cisco Secure Firewall

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10
Category
Cisco Secure Firewall
8.1 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

Cisco Secure Firewall won the following awards in the Next Generation Firewall category

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Cisco Secure Firewall Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
92%
Negotiation and Contract:
79%
Conflict Resolution:
90%
Strategy & Innovation:
87%
Service Experience:
90%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 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?

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1% Negative
6% Neutral
93% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Trustworthy
  • Security Protects
  • Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Virtual Private Network

85

Advanced Threat Protection

83

Deep Packet Inspection

83

Encrypted Data Control

81

Network Access Control

81

Application Control

81

Virtual Firewall

80

Web Content Filtering

80

Identity Based Control

80

Off Premise Cloud Firewalls

79

Vulnerability Detection

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Quality of Features

84

Business Value Created

84

Vendor Support

83

Ease of Data Integration

80

Ease of Implementation

80

Breadth of Features

80

Usability and Intuitiveness

78

Ease of IT Administration

78

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

76

Ease of Customization

74

Cisco Secure Firewall Reviews

Subash M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2025

Genuine review about Cisco secure firewall

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cisco Secure Firewall from other similar products?

Vendor support is more good in this cisco product. Ease of implementation.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

An individual can implement the cisco firewall.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some of the functionality is not working properly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are new to NGFW and need to go with market leading product then you can go with cisco firewalls.

Pros

  • Inspires Innovation
  • Saves Time
  • Client's Interest First
  • Over Delivered

Bharath D.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2025

Transformer

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

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
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Strong Threat Intelligence & Reliable Performance

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

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