Name: Cisco Secure Firewall
Rating: 4.8 (1180 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Cisco Secure Firewall?

Cisco Secure Firewall is a software designed to provide network security through threat detection and prevention, application visibility, and policy enforcement. The software supports firewall capabilities by inspecting incoming and outgoing network traffic and blocking unauthorized access. It offers intrusion prevention, advanced malware protection, and URL filtering, helping organizations protect against security threats across different environments including physical, virtual, and cloud. Cisco Secure Firewall enables centralized management, automation of security policies, and integration with threat intelligence. The software addresses the business problem of safeguarding data and assets from cyber threats while supporting regulatory compliance requirements.

Overall experience with Cisco Secure Firewall

Senior It Engineer

500M - 1B USD, Healthcare and Biotech

FAVORABLE

“Seamless Integration With Cisco Ecosystem Enhances Security And Daily Operations”

5.0

Jan 14, 2026

As we are using other Cisco solutions in our company, this one is integrated perfectly and works without any special issues. Our daily job, sometimes with heavy traffic works smooth and secured by Cisco. I feel that a good percentage of security goes to the Cisco Firewall.

Infrastructure Architect

<50M USD, Software

CRITICAL

“Firewall Transition: Secure Firewall, the Shortfalls”

3.0

Nov 26, 2024

Solid product, but still leaves much to be desired. The interface is very clunky and requires opening multiple browser tabs to be able to look at various pieces of configuration data simultaneously.

About Company

Company Description

Cisco is a company that specializes in networking technologies, particularly Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions. It was established in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. As of today, Cisco has a global workforce, continuing to innovate in various fields, notably in routing and switching. Adding to its core business, the company also delves into emerging technologies including home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security features, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Moreover, Cisco extends its expertise to offer a sweeping range of services such as technical support and advanced services. The company sells its products and services on an enterprise level, to commercial businesses, service providers, and end-users.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1984

Head office location

San Jose, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

http://www.cisco.com

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I cannot imagine hybrid work without AnyConnect VPN solution. Works seamlessly with daily operations. No more messy policies with the Firepower management tool. The last one is integration with other Cisco solutions and ecosystem.

Overall the product is stable, and any bugs that I've hit with the platform have not impacted operations in any way.

The most important feature that we are using is VPN - site to site and SSL vpn. Firewall management interface is easy to go which helps admins to configure the policies or any configuratatuon with a lot of ease. IPS feature of firewall helps us to prevent unknown attacks and url filtering helps in layer 7 filtering which eases in preventing application attacks.

In my opinion, the learning curve can be the main challenge. You will need time to catch all the features and solutions you can implement and improve your business. For smaller businesses, the price can be too high. Maybe a better knowledge base would be useful.

Existence of FlexConfig. Lack of main stream EIGRP configuration. This product replaced the Cisco's old firewall product line, but wasn't actually a true replacement. The UI is clunky and ultimately Secure Firewall lacks CLI capabilities.

Upgrading the firewall is challenging because it gets stuck sometimes and takes longer than expected to come. Another is the many recent vulnerabilities with firewalls. Cisco has released the CVEs that are affected and vulnerable to infra hence we had to go with multiple upgrades in recent months.

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50M-1B USD

Healthcare and Biotech

Review Source

Seamless Integration With Cisco Ecosystem Enhances Security And Daily Operations

Network Security Engineer L2

Software

Firewall Simplifies Layered Protection Despite Upgrade Delays and Recent Vulnerabilities

Feb 2, 2026

We were looking for a compact firewall which we achieved with this cisco secure product. It does help us to secure from layer 4 to layer 7 of OSI beacuse of which helped in cost saving with not opting for any other firewall for different purposes. over satisfactory products in our infrastructure.

IT Manager

Transportation

Support Remains Responsive Yet Device Registration Feature Still Missing After Many Years

Nov 11, 2025

They have worked directly with Cisco to get us this product at a very competitive pricing.

<50M USD

IT Services

Cisco Secure Firewall Complex Management for heavily invested in Cisco technologies

Feb 3, 2026

Cisco security firewalls provide strong, enterprise grade secuirty with integration with Cisco products. However, it is complex to manage and at a high cost. Suits companies that have invested in Cisco and have experienced security admins.

Manager, It Security And Risk Management

Banking

Cloud Signature Updates and SSL Inspection Enhance Threat Protection Capabilities

Feb 12, 2026

Great dashboard. Easy to implement policies It bonds well with our other vendors as well as the other Cisco products.