I assess Cisco Secure Firewall's ability to unify policies across my environment as definitely easy. We just do it through the one central management and then push it out from there.

Cisco Secure Firewall helps us along the path to implementing a zero-trust security model, but there are a lot of tools and different paths to cover, so it's just really one tool in the arsenal.

The IPS benefits my company because that's one of the requirements; we used to have separate IPS. Now it's all integrated, providing ease of use for us.

We are running other solutions as well, but being in the financial industry, we run multiple vendors and multiple firewalls. When I compare this solution with others, Cisco Secure Firewall is quite stable.

Prior to adopting Cisco Secure Firewall, I have always had Cisco firewalls in the environment across my entire tenure. It has never been a complete rip and replace. We did have a point in time where at the edge we had Check Point firewalls. They worked well, but when it came time for replacement, we put Check Point against Cisco and Cisco won out, which I was happy about because I prefer Cisco.