Areas that could be improved with the Cisco Secure Firewall include the ease of use with the product, and it needs to work better with NAC and integration.

Regarding the initial setup of the Cisco Secure Firewall, if we're discussing setting it up from scratch, it's not difficult. I think it's acceptable. On a scale of 1 to 10 for ease of deploying FMC from scratch, I would rate it a 7. There's a wizard for the initial setup; you input the management IP, and that part is easy. Adding it to the FMC is also easy, but then you have to configure extensively from the graphical interface, and that's not very straightforward. You need to manually configure many items. They could allow more setup options in the wizard when connecting to the FMC. You can do things through APIs to facilitate, but if you're doing it manually, it can be challenging.