We performed a comparison between AWS Firewall Manager and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS Firewall Manager isn't a separate solution when you create the virtual private cloud (VPC), so you can control the traffic through that security group."
"The interface is intuitive and it is easy for the users."
"The most valuable feature is the centrally managed rule. I also like the central orchestration."
"Also, the strength of the community is invaluable."
"Once this solution is set up, we hardly have to touch it."
"It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"My clients have never contacted me with any issues, so I believe the solution is stable."
"I like its system management and filtering options as a layer seven firewall."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is scalable."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"The most valuable features are the Virtual Private Network and the Electronic Control Lists."
"Scalability is not an issue as long as you are able to buy additional licenses. Ten percent of our customers use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, and we have large accounts with 50% of their end users behind this firewall."
"The solution is useful and powerful."
"Enabling and configuring the logging is not that straightforward."
"The system should be more customizable."
"I would like to see AWS add some UTM features to the firewall. It would also be great if AWS Firewall had native IPS/IDS. They have the separate IPS/IDS, GuardDuty."
"This solution is suitable for a small-scale enterprise and may not scale up to a very high volume of traffic or a large number of servers."
"They could consider organizing and enhancing documentation in a more structured and chronological manner"
"It needs to be more employee-friendly, and the security management could be more efficient."
"The interface is an area that could be improved."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center needs to reduce its price."
"Cisco firewalls use old ESR or a Linux system, and there are problems with encryption. When we switch on encryption, the throughput goes down."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Due to the lack of enough tutorials available online, I face problems with Cisco."
"It takes five to seven minutes to push one policy."
"It's not very user-friendly and can be somewhat disorganized."
"The IOS and the deploy option could be improved."
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AWS Firewall Manager is ranked 8th in Firewall Security Management with 6 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 18 reviews. AWS Firewall Manager is rated 7.8, while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Firewall Manager writes "Streamlining security and enhanced file transfer control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center writes "A stable and reasonably priced product that protects organizations from malware". AWS Firewall Manager is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Azure Firewall Manager, FireMon Security Manager and Skybox Security Suite, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with FireMon Security Manager and Palo Alto Networks Panorama. See our AWS Firewall Manager vs. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center report.
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