The Cisco Firepower 4100 Series’ 1-rack-unit size is presented by the vendodr as ideal at the Internet edge and in high-performance environments. They further state that it shows what’s happening on your network, detects attacks earlier so you can act faster, and reduces management complexity.
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Forcepoint NGFW
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall delivers network security at scale. They can be deployed from anywhere through the Secure Management Console (SMC) and unify policy management, incident response and reporting.
$900
one-time fee (approx)
Pricing
Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
Forcepoint NGFW
Editions & Modules
Firepower 4100
50,000-250,000
per appliance
Forcepoint NGFW N60
$900
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N120
$1314
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N350
$7850
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N1200
$13600
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N2200
$36000
one-time fee (approx)
Forcepoint NGFW N3400 & N3500
varies
one-time fee
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
Forcepoint NGFW
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Firewalls are bought predominately through partners and third-party VARs. Pricing for purchase and lease and support options vary by reseller.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
Forcepoint NGFW
Features
Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
Forcepoint NGFW
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
8.6
Ratings
0% below category average
Forcepoint NGFW
8.1
Ratings
6% below category average
Identification Technologies
8.00 Ratings
5.00 Ratings
Visualization Tools
8.00 Ratings
5.00 Ratings
Content Inspection
8.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls
8.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP
10.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console
9.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging
8.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
VPN
10.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
High Availability
10.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection
10.00 Ratings
7.00 Ratings
Proxy Server
5.50 Ratings
00 Ratings
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When we are asked by local partners which security equipment we use we always recommend our Cisco security products. The Firepower firewall is no exception and we can easily recommend this to others who need a fast, secure, and well built system that integrates well with all your existing hardware and software.
If you are looking for a smaller network/security team, the ease and low complexity create an easy to manage environment. One engineer can easily manage 100 nodes/locations. If you are just starting to get security conscious and predict regular adjustments to policy, routing, and access, this is a very good system for making easy to understand and low impact changes on a regular basis without operations interruption.
Policy management in the GUI. I'm old-school, and still create ACLs in the CLI, but using the GUI for this is very nice.
Event monitoring and reporting is great, and you can get very granular when it comes to what information you are viewing.
I really like the troubleshooting features that are built in, especially the packet tracer and the ability to generate and download a troubleshooting package to review or send to TAC.
Easy to manage and make changes on - ACL's are done with ease.
Easy USB initial configuration - The easy initial setup of a new location and firewall saves massive time. Settings are automatically pushed to new nodes upon contact with the controller.
Low Complexity - This system does not have a lot of complexity requiring extra hours, training, or personnel to manage.
Poor Reporting - It exists but even when calling in to support for assistance, they have no idea how to tackle customizing reports or searching for specific data.
It not easy to understand the different features it offers. Sometimes you need to spend a couple of minutes to implement a change or even open a ticket with cisco tac to figure it out. Once support is on the phone with you they know how to resolve problems. But it's not an intuitive tool
We switch to Palo Alto due the amount of tickets open with Cisco Firepower 4100 Series. It was taking a great amount of time for our engineers to fix problems. But it was a great tool when it was working as we were expecting. The fact it has a lot of instability on the releases was the deciding factor.
Efficiency/Productivity increase. The company moved from Cisco firewall and routing hardware to Forcepoint NGFW. It now takes fewer people and fewer hours to manage the new product. This has allowed the company to put the man-hours to use on other projects and tasks.
Long term viability. This has been a concern in the past when the company started as Stonegate, merged to become Stonesoft then got purchased by McAfee, then McAfee got purchased by Intel. However, with Forcepoint the product seems to have found a stable home.
Low complexity. The Web GUI based system for management has reduced the cost of personnel and training required. There is no longer a need for the company to have higher trained and higher salary cost employees to manage the system. Mid-level admins at lower salaries are capable of managing the GUI based system with ease.
