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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco offers the Firepower 2100 Series NGFW, designed to allow businesses to gain resiliency through superior security with sustained performance. The Firepower 2100 Series has a dual multicore CPU architecture that optimizes firewall, cryptographic, and threat inspection functions simultaneously, to achieve security doesn’t come at the expense of network performance.N/A

    Cisco Secure Firewall

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ACisco Secure Firewall delivers comprehensive threat protection for modern, distributed networks. Built to support hybrid workforces and multicloud environments, it enables Zero Trust access, application visibility, and secure remote connectivity. With integration across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX and Talos threat intelligence, the firewall powers organizations to detect and stop more sophisticated threats. Centralized management simplifies policy enforcement, orchestration,…N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Firepower 2100 SeriesCisco Secure Firewall
    Editions & Modules
    Firepower 2100
    3,000-20,000
    per appliance
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Firepower 2100 SeriesCisco Secure Firewall
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Cisco Firepower 2100 SeriesCisco Secure Firewall
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Firepower 2100 Series and Cisco Secure Firewall
    Feature
    Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Cisco Secure Firewall
    7.9
    79 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Identification Technologies7.01 Ratings8.168 Ratings
    Content Inspection9.01 Ratings8.371 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls9.01 Ratings8.976 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP6.01 Ratings8.865 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console10.01 Ratings8.374 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging9.01 Ratings7.175 Ratings
    VPN10.01 Ratings7.665 Ratings
    High Availability10.01 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection8.01 Ratings7.870 Ratings
    Proxy Server6.01 Ratings6.741 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings7.072 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Firepower 2100 SeriesCisco Secure Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (35 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Firepower 2100 SeriesCisco Secure Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    The Cisco [Firepower] 2100 [Series] is an easy sell for anyone looking. You already know Cisco excels in the security department, but now that firepower lives right on the box and inline with the rest of the firewall data flow you can save yourself a lot of time and headaches. Unless you cant quite afford Cisco's 2100 line, there's not much reason to go with the competition.
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    Cisco
    The software offers advanced firewall solutions from Web threats management to behavioural analytics and comprehensive application security. Cisco Secure firewall software is incredibly easy to deploy and implement. Customer support services providers are concise and very responsive. Integration and customization of the software are exceptional. The product boasts impressive capabilities, enabling it to stop threats and manage all security flaws in real time.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • For us, to power the whole system does scaling quite a bit. So we can definitely have a lot of room to grow if needed. The device can support a lot of way more than we need right now, but in the future, if we need more it seems to be a big pro of that. Also the support of Cisco, knowing that it's backed by Cisco definitely is good. You guys are the largest players in the market
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    Cisco
    • It's good at segregating networks and ensuring that you only give the access that you need to give. Especially with medical devices, you want to only give the access that they need and keep them in their own separate areas so that they can't just communicate with the rest of the network. It's also good at the border for keeping attackers out of the network.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Cisco patches bugs quickly but patches are slow to install and reboot
    • Smart licensing is getting better but still can be troublesome
    • Some weird visual interface glitches that require clicking the same options a few extra times
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    Cisco
    • I wish that the deployment of the updates to the sensors from the FMC was faster.
    • Cisco ASA firewall did a great job of authentication and authorization on the local firewall. FTD does not authorize users well in terms that an AAA must be setup to provide the granular tools that the ASA did.
    • Cisco's method of licensing the firewall can be improved. The FMC and the FTD are licensed through the Cisco software manager and there are instances where the devices are licensed but the firewall still displays and error due to licensing.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    It works really well. We can do most anything we want or need to with it, and you don’t have to have a doctorate or multiple certs to necessarily figure it out. The thing that would probably have to happen to make us switch would be if we just got priced out - Cisco’s more powerful and higher bandwidth models cost a pretty penny.
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    Usability
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    The platform is powerful and feature-rich, especially when paired with tools like Firepower Management Center (FMC) and SecureX. The policy structure is logical, and the visibility into traffic flows, threat activity, and rule hits is quite strong once you're familiar with the interface
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    As for the availability, in general we did not experience any issues with it, neither in situations where there's only one physical device implemented nor when there's and High Availability pair. Failover works like a charm, no complaints here, it works as it should and so far it has been highly reliable.
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    Performance
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    no slowing down, vpn is working fast
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Firewall support is professional just like any other technology Cisco sells. From answering simple questions to bringing out outages affecting a large population of our workforce, Cisco support is always courteous, professional, and communicates with our team to keep our request on their radar. Some of the brightest people I've met are from Cisco support both in IQ and EQ which shows the talent Cisco is able to onboard to their team.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    very good
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    Online Training
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    was a good training but questions was answered not so good. Training was "Fundamentals of Cisco Firewall Threat Defense and Intrusion Prevention (SFWIPF)".
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    Our initial implementation was aided by Cisco's professional services and was excellent. The engineer was very knowledgeable and helped us work through issues while building out our new internet security edge Part of this involved tools to migrate the firewall configuration from old to new.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Cisco Secure Firewall works better with the Cisco ecosystem when we can utilize it and feels beefy enough when we utilize it in the data center. The Fortinet we have found are great, small cost boxes for remote offices with a better UI then Cisco Secure Firewalls. The feature set included with the firewalls feels similar from a security point of view.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    was not involved
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    Scalability
    Cisco
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    Cisco
    you can choose up to 50 devices i think thats enough for our organization
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    was not involved
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • It's keeping threats out like a firewall should. Definitely cost wise it is at a higher cost center than other alternatives. Especially when it comes to licensing. Cisco is generally the higher, for perhaps, definitely for good reason, right? I mean, definitely positive impact as far as working as it should that's at cost.
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    Cisco
    • Positive impact. Cisco is a big player in IT environment. It is future stuff, everything, what you learn today, maybe something can be tomorrow. And yes, it's quite important to learn the new stuff every day. And yes, that's it. Yes, I'm happy with Cisco.
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