We have some in our DMZ. We have some located in several locations throughout our state. Then we have our local Egress and VPN firewalls that we use.
Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Virtual - BYOL
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Secures our infrastructure from end to end
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The VPN is our most widely used feature for Cisco Secure Firewall. Since we were forced into a hybrid working situation by COVID a few years back, VPN is the widely used feature because everybody is working remotely for our agency. So it came in very handy.
What needs improvement?
Cisco Secure Firewall’s customer support could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cisco Secure Firewall for 20 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cisco Secure Firewall is a very stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We bought scalable products, and we're in a good position.
How are customer service and support?
With Cisco Secure Firewall's technical support, it's always hard to get somebody that knows what they're doing on the line. However, when you finally get somebody on the line, it's pretty good. Having to deal with the licensing and be able to open a TAT case based on the serial numbers was very difficult. The individuals we get support from are pretty good, but the solution's support is two out of ten because of the process of having to get to that point to get support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Negative
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have previously used Juniper. Our company decided to go with Cisco Secure Firewall because of the cost and ease of use. Also, the people in our team knew Cisco versus other solutions.
How was the initial setup?
Cisco Secure Firewall's initial setup was pretty straightforward. They have a wizard, which helped in some instances, but there's also a lot of documentation online that helps a lot.
What about the implementation team?
We have a reseller that we go through, and they helped implement Cisco Secure Firewall for us.
What other advice do I have?
The application visibility and control with Cisco Secure Firewall is pretty great. We have the FTD, the firewall threat defense, and FMC, the management console we use, and we have great visibility using that product.
Cisco Secure Firewall's ability to secure our infrastructure from end to end is really good. We always find things and or block things before they even happen. So it's great, especially with Talos.
Cisco Secure Firewall has helped free up our IT staff for other projects to a certain degree. We still have to review logs in the firewall, and hopefully, someday, we'll have AI to help do that for us too. The solution has probably saved our organization about ten hours a week.
We use Talos, among other threat advice tools, and it's very good. Talos automatically updates us on the threats out there, and we can deploy those to our devices if we deem it fit to deploy them.
Cisco Secure Firewall has helped our organization improve its cybersecurity resilience. We've used Cisco for so long, and we've never had a data breach up to this point.
Overall, I rate Cisco Secure Firewall ten out of ten.