We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable aspects are the antivirus and URL filtering."
"Scalability is not an issue as long as you are able to buy additional licenses. Ten percent of our customers use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, and we have large accounts with 50% of their end users behind this firewall."
"It's a fine solution in terms of scalability."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"I like its system management and filtering options as a layer seven firewall."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is the UTM."
"The most valuable features are the Virtual Private Network and the Electronic Control Lists."
"The product's user interface is very easy to use and convenient."
"I am impressed with the tool's change management, firewall and network assurance."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"The most valuable features are the rule compliance and the OS vulnerability checks."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"It's not very user-friendly and can be somewhat disorganized."
"Areas for improvement include pricing points and the range of products available at any given time."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could improve by being less expensive."
"The interface is an area that could be improved."
"The product's setup could be easier."
"Improving the product by incorporating SD-WAN functionality would be highly beneficial, especially for remote offices with limited server and Internet availability."
"I had a challenging time trying to size the firewall on the cloud. Maybe the information is there, but I couldn't find it easily. Usually, it depends on the cloud provider itself, whether you use AWS or Azure. These guys give you the information, so this part is not as detailed."
"The solution needs improvement in firewall configuration checks. I would also like to see more configuration checks for Forcepoint and for other non-supported firewalls."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"The only place where Skybox has room for improvement, and they're working on releasing this, it's just a slow-go, is the UI. The user interface has historically been via a locally installed thick client. They are moving to a web-based console and it's slowly coming out."
"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"They are not satisfied with the complexity of the solution and the price."
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center writes "A stable and reasonably priced product that protects organizations from malware". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Cisco Defense Orchestrator, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal. See our Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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