We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Skybox Security Suite 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 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."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is scalable."
"The product's user interface is very easy to use and convenient."
"Cisco's support and services are far superior to any other security product in Pakistan."
"My clients have never contacted me with any issues, so I believe the solution is stable."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Skybox Security Suite, and this is because I work on the security side, are the firewall assurance, the change manager and the vulnerability control. These three features are the most impressive from Skybox Security."
"I think that compliance checks and policy compliance are the product's good features."
"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"It has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"The ability to appropriately prioritize vulnerabilities inside the environment, and then to have visibility into the traffic and rule sets of an organization, are two of the top capabilities that I recommend. Skybox is the only one that does both of those in a single platform."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"instead of asking for firewall rules which may or may not be relevant, or could already be there, or could be over-permissioned, Skybox can be used to map out the resources that that application is going to use and provide the exact rules that an application would require to function correctly. If the traffic isn't able to flow for the application, if it's erring out, Skybox can be used to troubleshoot that and say, "All right, where is the traffic being stopped and why, and how do I fix that.""
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's logging functionality could be improved."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Cisco firewalls use old ESR or a Linux system, and there are problems with encryption. When we switch on encryption, the throughput goes down."
"I had a challenging time trying to size the firewall on the cloud. Maybe the information is there, but I couldn't find it easily. Usually, it depends on the cloud provider itself, whether you use AWS or Azure. These guys give you the information, so this part is not as detailed."
"Some duplicated values and security standards are not working in some high-application protocols with Cisco's next-generation firewalls."
"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."
"Areas for improvement include pricing points and the range of products available at any given time."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"The solution does not support certain devices or vendors in some regions or countries due to regulations."
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 18 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 33 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center writes "A stable and reasonably priced product that protects organizations from malware". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, FireMon Security Manager and Palo Alto Networks Panorama, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal. See our Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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