Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (formerly NGFWv) Pros and Cons

This new generation firewall, has 2 main upgrades if we compare de Cisco Firepower against the Cisco ASA

First: More Capacity about sessions and a improven posibility of creation of new sessions. The Firepower can duplicate or triplicate this aspect if we compre to the ASA. This is very useful if you are an ISP and you have a DNS Cache. This can help you if you have any incident in your DNS or in the master server that you use.

2nd. The integration of the firewall services with online services as umbrella, and automatically signature updates for services like DDos, and protection against malwares. Almost that Firepower support aplication visibility and control if it's required, and URL blocking.

Cisco have included this very important option in their firewall, you have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really there isn't any particular factor that i dislike.

But in this product, is very important to have the support up to date, so you can access to the updated security signatures list.

Like all of Cisco ASA, some stuff ir really hard to do in the CLI, it's like Cisco want us to use the web app. In ASA was a little hard, in Firepower you have to do via http. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the cloud era, network firewalls need to do more than secure networks. They must also ensure you have uninterrupted network availability and robust access to cloud-hosted applications.

Cisco Firewall is a family of physical appliance, virtual, and cloud-based appliances that protect and enhance the dispersed network infrastructure. They deliver advanced security by tightly integrating a comprehensive set of next-generation firewall technologies, including Layer 7 application profiling, intrusion prevention, web filtering, malware and advanced threat protection, antispam protection, and network access control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Memory, overload when handling traffic and fails over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Inexpensive, ease to configure and manage, HA features are outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike very little with the ASA firewalls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like this NGFW, because it is easy to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have any problems with this NGFW. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scalable and reliable for the enterprise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost is high and features are not very agile Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its simple and easy to use, lots of clear tabs - which shows each setting and guides show each steps and command line configuration which was really nice if you do not have access to asdm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Firepower module why it was so hard to build it earlier and integrate more - very poor performance of IPS access has to be limited as it cannot handle all traffic and memory is overloaded thenks to which firewalls fail over. I hope that future releses fix this. Also Firepower is very limited they just started adding features which in other firewalls are for months or years now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows us to do our job without getting viruses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it blocks sites we need to get to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, simple to understand interface, remote access when away from the office Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing that I can think of. Everything about it is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cisco has been the biggest player in network security for many years, and they have done this by being innovative and reliable with everything they do. Their customer support is top notch as well as their products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really Cisco's fault but The Cisco Adaptive Security Device manager can be a pain but this is because it uses Java and I have heard rumors that this is going away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been servicing Cisco ASA firewalls for customers for a few years now and they never disappoint, If you buy a Cisco firewall you can be sure that it will work for a long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ASDM can sometimes be buggy but mostly those are Java issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.