Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Reviews & Insights

Score8.3 out of 10

46 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Management: Users have found it easy to handle firewall policies, appreciating the tool's intuitive interface and lack of learning curve. They value the ability to manage firewall access policies, IPS policies, VPN configuration through wizards, and NAT configuration effortlessly.

Integration with Other Cisco Products: Some users have highlighted the seamless integration with other Cisco networking products like ICE and Umbrella, enhancing their overall experience. This integration makes device upgrades easier and streamlines operations for users utilizing multiple Cisco solutions.

Enhanced Security Features: Users value the enhanced security features such as intrusion prevention capabilities, all-in-one admin usage, and simplified network protection. The tool's ability to enforce rules anywhere, provide intrusion prevention, and simplify network protection has been highly regarded by users.

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Reviews

22 Reviews

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 20, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For firewalling, policies, VPN, and API of course, the automation part of it. So basically for managing our network infrastructure security.

Pros

Firewall Policy. Protect the resources, our servers from other people accessing the servers. So basically firewall policies. It's great to have them and it's easy to manage.

Cons

The API. You can use the GUI and the API at the same time, you can only use one of them. So there's improvement. A big one, hopefully.

Likelihood to Recommend

Internal traffic. Basically for your internal network infrastructure. It's great. I wouldn't use it for the edge firewall to the internet, but I would use it especially on the internal part of your network.

Verified User

Employee (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Cisco Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

August 26, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So we, as a company, we sell the product to various clients in my organization will support and manage it for the client. So just keeping the firewall rules and everything up to date and doing active response to threats.

Pros

It has good integration with other Cisco's networking products such as ICE and Umbrella.

Cons

I would like to get to a point where Flex Config is no longer muted.

Likelihood to Recommend

IUt's best-suited Edge firewall or internal firewall used for securing clients or for VPN solutions.

Verified User

Manager (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Cisco Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 26, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to manage all different kinds of firewalls, well at least all different kinds of secure firewalls. Usually fire powers of course. We also use it to actually check and verify which flows are being allowed or being dropped and that kind of stuff.

Pros

It's really easy to correlate events and just to see on multiple firewalls what is actually happening within the network.

Cons

In comparison to the ASA, for instance, the VPN setup is easy, but to actually see which SAS are up, it's really hard to see that. And it's easier on the ASA, so that is something that probably can improve. So we could actually see like this kind of traffic is up and running so we know which essays are down or where we can actually troubleshoot easier

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have multiple firewalls in your network, so multiple firepower things across the entire network, the FMC is just the way to go.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Best FMC for enhanced security

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 21, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Cisco secure firewall management center to apply our organization's firewall policy and to track intrusion based on the risk and on the application that the user is trying to access from outside our organization's network. Using this software is giving us a clear scope and visibility for any breach.

Pros

Prevents Intrusions
All in one admin usage
Enhanced security features

Cons

Implementation or switching from existing firewall took longer time than expected. To be simple - initial setup is complex
Sometime applying new policies to the firewall is taking more time than expected
Customer support has to be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

Most of our clients are from financial industries (not wishing to mention client name). We secure their application while in development or testing or any phase of SDLC life cycle. We need to monitor the network for risk, application traffic, intrusion events, and whether or not the traffic has any business relevance. We have a centralized event and policy manager to track all the events happening in the host that are in scope.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

From 1-10, FMC is an 8.

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 9, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is used to manage cisco firewalls running FTD Image or Cisco IPS/IDS Firepower Modules on top of Cisco ASA. Access, Intrusion, URL, and Malware Policies are controlled from one place for all managed devices. The network object can be reused between access policies. FMC provides great visibility and context for events, threads, and traffic generated from users, applications, and operating systems used in the infrastructure.

Pros

Manage firewall access policies
Manage IPS policies
Wizards for VPN configuration
NAT configuration

Cons

Faster depolyments
Simultaneous access policy configuration by multiple users
More VPN Troubleshooting options on GUI

Likelihood to Recommend

FMC is feature-rich and user-friendly. Cisco firewalls can run on standalone mode (FDM) but fewer features are supported on FDM. FMC is a must when working with Cisco Firewall. Migration from Cisco ASA to Cisco FTD is easy. There is a tool (FMT) that converts and imports the cisco IOS configuration file to FMC. FMC runs in VM or can be purchased as a physical appliance. The downside is that FMC is not quite fast and has bugs, especially when running in the older version 5x. and 6x.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 28, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to manage multiple firewalls from a central point. We are able to check intrusions and apply configuration changes across our network using this tool. It give us visibility in real time of any malware outbreaks allowing us to respond proactively to fix and remediate.

Pros

Enforce rules anywhere
Simplifies the protection of our network
Intrusion prevention

Cons

Deployment of policies can take a long time
Switching between tabs can take some time.

Likelihood to Recommend

I wouldn't recommend Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center for just a couple of firewalls but once you have more than this over a wide geographic area the ability to remotely manage and apply configuration changes is invaluable. It has reduced our time to respond to issues and being able to see through a "single pane" if there are any issues is really helpful.

Daniel Sayer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Braintree District Council (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Cisco Secure FMC is a good firewall manager.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Secure FMC is a good tool for managing multiple firewalls across different networks. It acts like a controller where you make policies and configurations and then deploy those settings to the firewalls from a central point of management. It's not very intuitive, and troubleshooting devices is more difficult from the FMC than from something like the old-school ASDM, but as far as managing devices goes, it's pretty good.

Pros

Single Pane of Glass.
Central Repository.
Eases device upgrades.

Cons

Needs to be more intuitive.
Instruction bubbles on different settings

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Secure FMC is great for managing firewalls, but not so great for troubleshooting firewalls. It makes setting up VPNs between devices easy, and makes creating ACLs a breeze, but it is tough to grasp how to actually view the troubleshooting logs. The Connection Events tab doesn't always show all the information you need either, so troubleshooting specific events requires some more detective work.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Cisco FMC

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the same product on multiple customer sites to run their daily operation task. It provides unified management over firewalls. We mostly used blades like application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection. Built-in forensics gives a detailed analysis of malware to safely remediate with a graphical representation of all the devices the attack has infected.

Pros

Application control.
Advance malware detection.
Unified management.

Cons

Policy control.
Need to reduce complexity.
API Integration.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco FMC is best suited for medium to large-scale organizations. FMC can be deployed as a physical or virtual appliance, or from the cloud. Centralized management. It's easier than ever to manage events and policies for these network security solutions. Integration with Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) helps enable consistent visibility and policy enforcement for distributed and dynamic applications across the network and workload.

Sunil Redekar

Network Security Engineer in Information Technology at Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Remediate Malware Outbreaks Automatically with Cisco SFMC

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For the last couple of years, we have been heavily relying on Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center to gain total visibility into our network and endpoints.

Pros

Threat management.
Control access to our network by preventing unknown endpoints automatically.
Centralizing security management in one platform.

Cons

Due to the complexity of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, it was hard for us to implement it. However, we partnered with an external service provider (Deloitte Cyber Risk) during the entire process from selection, deployment, training to customization.

Likelihood to Recommend

Before, we couldn't see devices that are using our network, cyber risks, and the activity of users. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center has centralized security management in one place by automating over 60% of procedures.

Wayne Lin

Digital Strategist, Account Manager in Finance and Accounting at Golin (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Global security Mogul, Always my choice.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

What I love about Cisco Secure Firewall Management is that it gives us total visibility into our network, hosts applications, files, mobile devices, virtual entertainment, threats, and vulnerability that exist in our constantly changing network. We also use it in managing multiple sensors (firepower). It addresses the ease of managing different devices across multiple sites. This tool was easy to deploy, easy to manage, the UI is very attractive and easy to customize.

Pros

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is very easy to use, requires no learning curve.
Its a centralized tool that allows management of multiple devices at ago.
Intuitive user friendly Interface.
Faster threats detection before they arrive in our networks.

Cons

Provides a complete and unified Management over firewalls which enhances fast threats detection.
Advanced malware protection.
Intrusion prevention system.
VPN remote access allows employees to work at the home office and be able to access the internet.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is an outstanding firewall and I recommend it to all my friends, colleagues who have not gotten the chance to [enjoy] the benefits of using it. It has the ability to block all the untrusted connections that are operating from outside of the network. We easily configure a site-to-site VPN in order to connect with different sites Securely.

Eric Emberly

Director, Technology Services in Information Technology at Pivotal Ventures (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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