"This solution helped us to identify the key areas where we need to focus to block traffic that is malicious to our organization."
"The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"The most important features are the intrusion prevention engine and the application visibility and control. The Snort feature in Firepower is also valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integrations and IPS throughput."
"The most valuable features of this solution are advanced malware protection, IPS, and IDS."
"The main thing that I love the most is its policy and objects. Whenever I try to give access to a user, I can create an object via group creation in the object fields. This way, I am not able to enter a user in the policy repeatedly."
"We get the Security Intelligence Feeds refreshed every hour from Talos, which from my understanding is that they're the largest intelligence Security Intelligence Group outside of the government."
"Its Snort 3 IPS has better flexibility as far as being able to write rules. This gives me better granularity."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. The technical support team are very good and very quick."
"Very reliable solution with good scalability and straightforward implementation."
"Five out of five ROI."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"The Firepower FTD code is missing some old ASA firewalls codes. It's a small thing. But Firepower software isn't missing things that are essential, anymore."
"The maturity needs to be better."
"I believe that the current feature set of the device is very good and the only thing that Cisco should work on is improving the user experience with the device."
"They need a VTI. I know it's going to be available in the next software version, which is the 6.7 version. However, the problem with that is that the 6.7 is going to deprecate all the older IKEv1 deployment tunnels. Therefore, the problem is that we have a lot of customers which are using older encryptions. If I do that, update it, it's not going to work for me."
"I'm not a big fan of the FDM (Firepower Device Manager) that comes with Firepower. I found out that you need to use the Firepower Management Center, the FMC, to manage the firewalls a lot better. You can get a lot more granular with the configuration in the FMC, versus the FDM that comes out-of-the-box with it. FDM is like Firepower for dummies."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"The initial setup could be simplified, as it can be complex for new users."
"Licensing is complex, and I'd like it to be simplified. This is an area for improvement."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
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