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4.1 out of 5

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As of July 2025, the mindshare of Cisco Secure Firewall in the Firewalls category stands at 6.2%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryFirewallsJul 25, 2025Download
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Computer Software Company
21%
University
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Healthcare Company
4%
Retailer
3%
Construction Company
3%
Performing Arts
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Media Company
2%
Non Profit
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Transportation Company
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%

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Phil Shiflett - PeerSpot user
Senior Manager, Network Engineering at TTi Power Equipment
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 14, 2025
Unified policies streamline network management but complex licensing requires attention

Pros

"Cisco Secure Firewall's ability to unify policies across our environment is pretty good. "

Cons

"Cisco Secure Firewall has some growth opportunities in terms of visibility and control capabilities regarding managing encrypted traffic."
Philman Tjong - PeerSpot user
Electrical Engineer Associate I at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 14, 2025
Intuitive management aids troubleshooting, but documentation and GUI need improvement

Pros

"The visibility and control capabilities of Cisco Secure Firewall benefit our company by making it easier for us to parse through traffic that is denied or allowed through, and that helps us with troubleshooting, so it does help cut down on troubleshooting."

Cons

"Cisco Secure Firewall could be improved in terms of the GUI and management."
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Ben Kusa - PeerSpot user
Director, Information Technology at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 14, 2025
Central management provides more visibility and network control

Pros

"The central management feature makes it easier to configure once, push out, and replace firewalls when they go bad. It's nice to have one pane of view, one pane of glass. "

Cons

"Cisco Secure Firewall could be improved by providing more visibility, especially regarding encryption, to be able to see what's in those traffic flows. "
PeerSpot user
OT NETWORK MANAGER at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 14, 2025
Reliable troubleshooting tools improve efficiency in energy sector security

Pros

"The feature of Cisco Secure Firewall I prefer most is troubleshooting, packet capture, and packet tracer; I love those features. "

Cons

"Cisco Secure Firewall's licensing model can be improved, as I struggle with it in an air-gapped environment. "
Chris Yankajtis - PeerSpot user
Systems Engineer at Métis Practice Solutions
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 14, 2025
Empowering junior admins through intuitive configuration and unified security policies

Pros

"Cisco Secure Firewall is easy to configure, and you can do it all in one pane of glass. It is really simple to configure. "

Cons

"Regarding stability and reliability, I have experienced false negative alerts with the CS models, which indicate that my switch has gone down when in reality, it has not. That is a fix that is needed."
CD
Director of Infrastructure at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 14, 2025
Central management simplifies policy unification and deployment speed, ensuring reliable security

Pros

"Cisco Secure Firewall scales with the growing needs of my organization, as we have different models and sizes, and our central boxes are powerful enough to cover whatever we want whenever we want."

Cons

"The upgrading process of Cisco Secure Firewall is a long process on a per-firewall basis, and it would be nice if that could be improved. One firewall can take two to two and a half hours to upgrade, so we end up having to watch it."
MR
Assistant Vice President at PLDT Enterprise
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 11, 2025
Offers good pricing and the ability to be used through the cloud

Pros

"The feature of Cisco Secure Firewall that I appreciate the most is its ability to be used via the cloud, so we don't have to deploy service engineers on-site at any time. "

Cons

"We tried to look into Z3 models before, but our cybersecurity team found some issues where it was lacking. They found some bugs or loopholes, so we wanted Cisco to address these before we fully roll out the solution. We're trying again, and hopefully, with Cisco's updates, it will be acceptable to us in the near future."
DP
Network Engineer at a government with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Cisco Secure Firewall
Jun 11, 2025
Central management empowers us with unified policy control and compliance

Pros

"The feature of Cisco Secure Firewall that I prefer the most is IPS; I appreciate the IPS feature because it's built in and I can control it using the FMC and push out the policy company-wide, making it centrally managed."

Cons

"There could be some improvement in the way FMC displays the policy."
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Phil Shiflett - PeerSpot user