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PROS

Cisco Sourcefire SNORT offers solid intrusion detection and prevention that scales easily in large environments.
Cisco's technical support is considered unbeatable, offering premium service.
The integration capabilities with Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco ISE, and Active Directory enhance authentication and security features.
Its ability to automatically learn traffic patterns and adjust recommendations accordingly is highly valuable.
Cisco Sourcefire SNORT provides excellent threat detection and logging features, allowing for centralized storage and monitoring.

CONS

Integration with other components, including Cisco's products, can be improved to enhance the administrative experience.
Pricing needs improvement to accommodate low-budget clients, as budget constraints often deter purchases in the market.
Performance requires enhancement, and more detailed alerts would improve overall utility, reducing false positives and unnecessary investigations.
Implementation and initial setup can be difficult and time-consuming, especially during migrations in complex environments.
The approach to managing traffic blocking is considered confusing and impractical.
 

Cisco Sourcefire SNORT Pros review quotes

NetworkE4b4a - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
Jul 2, 2019
Solid intrusion detection and prevention that scales easily in very large environments.
OA
Chief technology officer at Next Generation Systems Nigeria Limited
Aug 28, 2019
Cisco technical support is unbeatable. It offers a premium service every time.
Netwrkengin67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Arab Islamic Bank
Aug 30, 2019
The whole solution is very good, and stable.
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it_user1057971 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 6, 2019
The solution can be integrated with some network electors like Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco ISE, and Active Directory to provide the client with authentication certificates.
NT
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 13, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is the filtering.
GT
Networking and Security Engineer at IE Network Solutions PLC (Ethiopia)
Nov 19, 2019
I like most of Cisco's features, like malware detection and URL filtering.
GF
Security Engineer at SOCITECH S.A.
Nov 26, 2019
In general, the features are all great. However, if I need to take hardware for ASA, because they need to upgrade to Firepower, we want to create rules. For that, most of the time we go to the command line. Right now Firepower is working really hard on the grid. You can apply all those rules to the grid. Even if you want to monitor the logs, for example, the activity will tell you which particular user has been blocked because of that rule. Firepower's monitoring interface is very good, because you can see each and every piece. ASA also had it, but there you needed to type the command and be under the server to see all that stuff. In Firepower you have the possibility to go directly to the firewall. The way the monitoring is displayed is also very nice. The feature I appreciate most in Firepower is actually the grid. The grid has worked very well.
AE
Information Security Operations Expert at Asiacell
Jan 9, 2020
The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically learn the traffic in our environment, and change the merit recommendations based on that.
it_user1259517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 12, 2020
The URL filtering is very good and you can create a group for customized URLs.
AR
Team Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Apr 13, 2020
It has a huge rate of protection. It's has a low level of positives and a huge rate of threat protection. It's easy to deploy and easy to implement. It has an incredible price rate compared to similar solutions.
 

Cisco Sourcefire SNORT Cons review quotes

NetworkE4b4a - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
Jul 2, 2019
Integration with other components — even Cisco's own products — can be enhanced to improve administrative experience.
OA
Chief technology officer at Next Generation Systems Nigeria Limited
Aug 28, 2019
The pricing needs to be improved. We have lots of low-budget clients around us. Budget constraints are always a deterrent in our market.
Netwrkengin67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Arab Islamic Bank
Aug 30, 2019
The customization of the rules can be simplified.
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it_user1057971 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 6, 2019
With the next release, I would like to see some PBR, so that you can do the configuration with the features.
NT
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oct 13, 2019
If the price is brought down then everybody will be happy.
GT
Networking and Security Engineer at IE Network Solutions PLC (Ethiopia)
Nov 19, 2019
I don't think this solution is a time-based control system, because one cannot filter traffic based on time.
GF
Security Engineer at SOCITECH S.A.
Nov 26, 2019
To be frank, the product is not really stable, although they're working on that. Whenever I go to the technical community with an issue, they will usually say that it is not there yet, but the technical team are working on it. The issues are not insolvable. I think they should just keep working on the product to make sure that the product can become very stable. The technical support is great. I appreciate that. We have a lot of communities supporting Firepower now, so you can find help for whatever issue you have.
AE
Information Security Operations Expert at Asiacell
Jan 9, 2020
We are unhappy with technical support for this solution, and it is not as professional as what we typically expect from Cisco.
it_user1259517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 12, 2020
There are problems setting up VPNs for some regions.
AR
Team Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Apr 13, 2020
Performance needs improvement.