We performed a comparison between Cisco Defense Orchestrator and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center 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."We have quite a few Active Stone by pairs. If they fail over... I'll see that there's a change on it and I'll have a look. The only change on it is that now this one is the standby, it took over the active role. I can go into that firewall and find out what happened... and troubleshoot based on that. That's pretty cool too."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do centralized upgrades on the ASAs. We can select all of those ASAs, and say, "Upgrade these ASAs at this scheduled time." It will copy down the ASA image, ASDM image, and then do the upgrade and failovers, and then put it all back into service as required at a scheduled time. It automates that process for us."
"If our server is blocked, this solution shows us why it is blocked and allows us to update the network routing."
"The most valuable feature is the Intrusion prevention."
"The ability to see the uptimes on the different VPNs that we have configured for site-to-site."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We spun up the VM onsite. We generated the key that it needed to talk to the Cloud Orchestrator. After that, as I started adding devices, it was relatively quick and easy."
"The bulk changes feature is definitely the most valuable."
"If we have a firewall go down, I can hop into CDO, pull the latest configuration off and apply it. That's really good. It helps save time."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the intrusion prevention system."
"My clients have never contacted me with any issues, so I believe the solution is stable."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is the UTM."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The applied policy inside the firewall is good."
"I like its system management and filtering options as a layer seven firewall."
"When logging into the device, we sort of had problems with it staying in sync. If somebody made a change onsite, it wouldn't do an automatic sync. It would have to wait, as you would have to do a manual sync up."
"It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances."
"They can centralize all products and provide a correlation about an incident and the response. They can also provide an on-premises solution. Currently, Cisco Defense Orchestrator is just for cloud deployments, not for on-premises deployments. Customers have to manage it on the cloud. We are based in Vietnam, and most of the customers here prefer to have on-premises deployments. Customers, especially from banking and government sectors, do not prefer to do anything on the cloud. Some of the small enterprises use the cloud."
"If I make a change locally to the firewall, CDO gives an alarm or an error message and says there's a change in compliance: "The firewall has this configuration but the last time it was compiled it had that configuration." That view of new changes versus the old could be better... I had to log in manually, locally on the firewall, to check which version, which configuration was actually running. I couldn't see it in CDO."
"The main thing that would useful for us would the logging and monitoring. I have to check it out, to get the beta, because I don't have access to them... I wanted CDO to be a central place so where I could do everything but right now I don't think that's possible. I really don't want to go back and forth between this and FMC. Maybe the logging portion, when I look at it, will give me some similarities."
"It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily."
"We had some MX devices that were blocking Windows Update from happening. We found out it was a Meraki issue, but it would have been nice if it had been flagged for us: "Hey, these updates are failing because the MX is blocking it." It wasn't a huge problem, but there was a loss of our time as well as the fact that the updates didn't get pushed out... It would have been nice if CDO had let us know that that was an issue."
"I'd like CDO to be the one-stop-shop where we could do all the configurations easily. It would be nice, for ASA upgrades, if we could do them from a central repository and not have to reach out to Cisco. That would be a definite plus."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center needs to reduce its price."
"Improving the product by incorporating SD-WAN functionality would be highly beneficial, especially for remote offices with limited server and Internet availability."
"The solution should improve the user interface."
"The product's setup could be easier."
"Cisco firewalls use old ESR or a Linux system, and there are problems with encryption. When we switch on encryption, the throughput goes down."
"It takes five to seven minutes to push one policy."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's logging functionality could be improved."
"It's not very user-friendly and can be somewhat disorganized."
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Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Defense Orchestrator writes "Provides visibility into entire infrastructure and bulk changes save time and resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center writes "A stable and reasonably priced product that protects organizations from malware". Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with AlgoSec, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager and Palo Alto Networks Panorama. See our Cisco Defense Orchestrator vs. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center report.
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