We performed a comparison between Azure 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."The most valuable feature of Azure Firewall Manager is the testing and configuration."
"The tool's support is good."
"It is easy to install and does not require any plugins for your browser."
"The solution is very easy to set up."
"The solution has improved our organization with its firewall."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is the UTM."
"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."
"My clients have never contacted me with any issues, so I believe the solution is stable."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is scalable."
"Cisco's support and services are far superior to any other security product in Pakistan."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"It's a fine solution in terms of scalability."
"The price is okay. This said, the solution is certainly expensive in comparison with other cloud services."
"We could do only one-way NAT-ing, where the traffic comes from outside to internal, to Azure, which is fine. However, when we actually do NAT-ed traffic to hit the firewall, that way is not working."
"The tool's security features need to improve. It needs also to include a monitoring system for logs. It is also complicated to find a query on the Azure firewall."
"There should be a simple one-click deployment for a firewall, rather than a set of setup instructions that include steps such as the DNS configuration, et cetera."
"The solution can improve the integration with open-source tools."
"Some duplicated values and security standards are not working in some high-application protocols with Cisco's next-generation firewalls."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center needs to reduce its price."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's logging functionality could be improved."
"It's not very user-friendly and can be somewhat disorganized."
"The solution could improve the number of ports available and load balancing."
"Cisco Firepower has been effective in solving various problems, but it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly like Fortinet."
"The IOS and the deploy option could be improved."
"Due to the lack of enough tutorials available online, I face problems with Cisco."
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Azure Firewall Manager is ranked 13th in Firewall Security Management with 5 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews. Azure Firewall Manager is rated 7.8, while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall Manager writes "Useful testing, simple configuration, and scales well". 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". Azure Firewall Manager is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, AWS Firewall Manager, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Tufin Orchestration Suite, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Cisco Defense Orchestrator. See our Azure Firewall Manager vs. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center report.
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