Cisco Firepower 1000 Series vs. Comodo Firewall

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series
Score 8.0 out of 10
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The Cisco Firepower® 1000 Series for small to medium-size businesses and branch offices is a family of four threat-focused Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) security platforms designed to deliver business resiliency through superior threat defense. The vendor provides that they offers exceptional sustained performance when advanced threat functions are enabled. The 1000 Series’ throughput range addresses use cases from the small office, home office, remote branch office to the Internet edge. The…N/A
Comodo Firewall
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Comodo Cybersecurity headquartered in New Jersey offers the Comodo Firewall to deliver security controls to moderate size businesses.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesComodo Firewall
Editions & Modules
Firepower 1000
1,000-5,000
per appliance
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesComodo Firewall
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesComodo Firewall
Features
Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesComodo Firewall
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series
8.3
Ratings
4% below category average
Comodo Firewall
7.0
Ratings
21% below category average
Identification Technologies8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Visualization Tools7.20 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Content Inspection8.30 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls8.70 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console7.20 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging8.30 Ratings5.00 Ratings
VPN9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
High Availability9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Proxy Server00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
User Ratings
Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesComodo Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
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7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
7.0
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Usability
8.0
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-
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Availability
8.1
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Performance
8.3
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-
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Support Rating
8.5
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-
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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-
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Ease of integration
8.1
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User Testimonials
Cisco Firepower 1000 SeriesComodo Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Firepower 1000 Series is best and required for every organization. It will give you more control [over] incoming and outgoing traffic and more visibility on user traffic. Sandbox is one of the best features [that] provides you [with] deep-level packet scans and gives you multilayered security. It can stop any malware attack on your organization. The support of Cisco is very fast and lots of documentation are available on the Cisco website.
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In an enterprise, where there is a threshold of many new users with whom there is a need to share the internet, Comodo Firewall can really ease the burden. Security of network and infrastructure increases with less cost compared to other alternatives. Allows advanced users to create advanced scenarios and deal with them.
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Pros
  • My organization is all Cisco and wants to stay in the Cisco life cycle, Firepower 1000 series is great for small to medium-size office.
  • Very robust enterprise-grade security solution with updated threat features to handle any current and upcoming threats. The solution is backed by Cisco to ensure constant security updates. Integrated AnyConnect remote client VPN is a big plus to allow for secure remote workers access. Easier to set up a site to site VPN due to the large user base and case studies published on integrating to other manufacturer solutions.
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  • Beginner friendly UI
  • Extensibility for pro users
  • Very low on system resources
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Cons
  • ACLS in gui are PIA cant see object details
  • Objects in ACLs dont show IP addresses
  • Have to renames every object to name+ip to make acl GUI useable
  • Speed to data can use improvement.
  • Health warnings should allow you to resolve you have to dig n search in some cases.
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  • Provide package for Linux systems as well.
  • Pricing is still not friendly for casual users.
  • Allow API integration with web application.
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Likelihood to Renew
It is quite good, robust and reliable but not always so easy to manage and configure. The tools could be improved and the price is not low for an entry level firewall
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Usability
Firepowers are secure, reliable, central management and configuration is easy and they fit in well with our existing Cisco infrastructure. Good feature set and support. Good management and control with chassis manager and central control with additional Firepower Management Centre.
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Reliability and Availability
At the beginining there were some bugs
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Performance
Great performance even on the lower end model of the series. You can push a lot of traffic through these devices without much performance impact. If you decide you want to inspect encrypted traffic however, you may take a big hit on the cpu and memory of the box, but they still manage to keep up even with all the bells and whistles turned on.
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Support Rating
Where's the 0 option... It sucks if you do not have an active Cisco contract. From my experience, trying to get the original batch of encryption licenses added was a nightmare and without it the firewalls are not secure. Just include basic security by default and don't require a registration.
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Implementation Rating
Utilize the new FMC cloud which is available in Cisco Defense Orchestrator.
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Alternatives Considered
We use both devices for different purposes. Both have their benefits, which we try to bring to best use in our environment. This makes it hard to compare them. All I can say for sure is, that they work quite well as a team, each leveling out the others flaws.
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Although AWS WAF is really nice and convenient, it only runs on a web application level, no doubt it has no match in that particular segment, and it is prone to vendor locking. Comodo on the other hand provides better service on the system and network level. if you have to choose a better UI, Comodo is the best solution
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Return on Investment
  • This product has kept hackers, malware, and viruses at bay for large hospitals and small alike. Very valuable data can reside behind this so long as it is set up correctly.
  • The value is great with SnortV3. Very versatile if you need a hybrid scenario with Multi-Cloud support.
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  • For enterprise level company, it has really great ROI.
  • Not perfect fit for individual use or for small company.
  • We streamlined the process of managing network security.
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