Cisco Secure Firewall Review

Cisco Secure Firewall (formerly Cisco Firepower NGFW) is a firewall product that integrates with other Cisco security offerings. It provides Advanced Malware protection, including sandboxing environments and DDoS mitigation. Cisco also offers a Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System, which provides security across cloud environments using techniques like internal network segmentation. The firewall can be managed locally, remotely, and via the cloud. The product is scalable to the scope of the business needs.

00:00 Start
00:09 Describe how you use Cisco Secure Firewall in your organization. What are the business problems Secure Firewall addresses and what is the scope of your use case?
00:43 Provide some detailed examples of things that Secure Firewall does particularly well.
01:58 Provide some detailed examples of areas where Secure Firewall has room for improvement.
02:54 On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to recommend Secure Firewall if asked by a colleague?
03:38 Please describe your experience with Secure Firewall’s advanced security features and how they impacted your business.
06:30 Secure Firewall contains features like VPN, log management, and analytics. How have you used these additional features? What impact have they had on your organization’s overall security posture?
07:01 What other products like Secure Firewall have you used or evaluated?
07:12 Describe how Secure Firewall stacks up against them and why you selected Secure Firewall.
07:49 Do you think Secure Firewall delivers good value for the price?
08:19 Are you happy with Secure Firewall’s feature set?
08:25 Did Secure Firewall live up to sales and marketing promises?
08:30 Did implementation of Secure Firewall go as expected?
08:35 Would you buy Secure Firewall again?
08:43 Besides Secure Firewall what other software do you regularly use? How likely would you be to recommend those products to a friend or colleague?

A de minimus incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement