Heavily worked on migration from ASA to FTD. From one to ten, I would rate Cisco Secure Firewall a ten.

I have been using Cisco Secure Firewall for approximately fifteen years, starting from Cisco PIX.

I would describe the experience of deploying Cisco Secure Firewall as very smooth. We used the migration software which just took the complete ASA configuration and put it in Cisco Secure Firewall in Cisco Firewall Management Center, and that was it; it worked.

It took us two months, together with the migration, but the thing is that we needed to change the groups and rules and everything in the background. It was more or less up to us, not up to the platform. We needed to change things on our side. It was internal, not the product's fault. The migration was lengthy.

The initial deployment was most difficult because there were some compatibility issues. At the time I came to the team, we were transitioning from Cisco ASA to the new Firepower solution, and the tools for migrating the configuration about the objects were not working properly. I did not have the time to work out why since I was not the main architect of the network and was in a lesser role, but this was one of the main challenges I worked on. We had to do a lot of scripting and manual work to migrate the objects and configure the new solution because Cisco ASA was not very capable of extracting the information to push to a newer generation of firewalls.