We performed a comparison between Cisco Defense Orchestrator and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."The bulk changes feature is definitely the most valuable."
"Cisco Defense Orchestrator has useful guides for the steps that need to follow by users."
"The ability to do operations on multiple firewalls at once is valuable because it saves time and mental effort. The solution's ability to make bulk changes makes it very convenient to manage things at once on multiple targets."
"This product provides excellent centralized device controls and reporting."
"We use a lot of image upgrades. We take some 20 devices and then we update everything at once, including the policies. We apply policies for groups. For certain groups, like anti-viruses, we send out policies and apply them to every single device. It's really easy and simple."
"There are a lot of templates that are already built-in. They give you quick-to-create and quick-to-apply policies that are typically a little more complicated for people."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do centralized upgrades on the ASAs. We can select all of those ASAs, and say, "Upgrade these ASAs at this scheduled time." It will copy down the ASA image, ASDM image, and then do the upgrade and failovers, and then put it all back into service as required at a scheduled time. It automates that process for us."
"When we're looking to the policies, it identifies the shadow rules. It notifies us about anything that will supersede other rules."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is the UTM."
"The product's user interface is very easy to use and convenient."
"It's a fine solution in terms of scalability."
"I like its system management and filtering options as a layer seven firewall."
"The solution is useful and powerful."
"The most valuable aspects are the antivirus and URL filtering."
"We had some MX devices that were blocking Windows Update from happening. We found out it was a Meraki issue, but it would have been nice if it had been flagged for us: "Hey, these updates are failing because the MX is blocking it." It wasn't a huge problem, but there was a loss of our time as well as the fact that the updates didn't get pushed out... It would have been nice if CDO had let us know that that was an issue."
"If I make a change locally to the firewall, CDO gives an alarm or an error message and says there's a change in compliance: "The firewall has this configuration but the last time it was compiled it had that configuration." That view of new changes versus the old could be better... I had to log in manually, locally on the firewall, to check which version, which configuration was actually running. I couldn't see it in CDO."
"I'd like CDO to be the one-stop-shop where we could do all the configurations easily. It would be nice, for ASA upgrades, if we could do them from a central repository and not have to reach out to Cisco. That would be a definite plus."
"Cisco Defense Orchestrator can improve by providing more support for third-party security components."
"They need to work on the user interface. It needs to be improved to make it more user-friendly."
"There could be some slight improvements to navigation. In some of the navigation you've got to go back to be able to get into where you need to be once you've made a change. If I make a change, I've then got to go back to submit and send the change."
"The dashboard needs to be more customizable to provide better reporting for our network."
"They can centralize all products and provide a correlation about an incident and the response. They can also provide an on-premises solution. Currently, Cisco Defense Orchestrator is just for cloud deployments, not for on-premises deployments. Customers have to manage it on the cloud. We are based in Vietnam, and most of the customers here prefer to have on-premises deployments. Customers, especially from banking and government sectors, do not prefer to do anything on the cloud. Some of the small enterprises use the cloud."
"The interface is an area that could be improved."
"The solution could improve the number of ports available and load balancing."
"Areas for improvement include pricing points and the range of products available at any given time."
"Cisco Firepower has been effective in solving various problems, but it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly like Fortinet."
"Due to the lack of enough tutorials available online, I face problems with Cisco."
"The IOS and the deploy option could be improved."
"The performance of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could be improved."
"The product's setup could be easier."
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Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Defense Orchestrator writes "Provides visibility into entire infrastructure and bulk changes save time and resources". 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". Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with AlgoSec, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and FireMon Security Manager.
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