Cisco Secure Firewall Implementation Team

JT
Network Administration Lead at Forest County Potawatomi Community

The partner that we utilized was Heartland Business Solutions, in Wisconsin.

Our experience with them, overall, has been pretty good. When it comes to the Cisco world, our organization's mix of experience comes in. There are items that we can do outside of the partner because we have some very talented individuals that work for us, some Cisco Certified individuals.

One issue is that, in their business, Heartland is always trying to upsell. They are an intermediary, they play that middle guy all the time, but there are items that we're capable of doing that they push. They don't really allow us to just run with it because they want to get the engineer time and the tech time. They want to make revenue off of some items that we're capable of doing. That would be one issue with them.

Another item that is frustrating has to do with the way they manage our Cisco licenses and Smart Nets for us. I'll give an example. We have Cisco firewalls across our entire network. Every year we have to buy the subscriptions for malware, and URL filtering, etc., to get full utilization out of them. All of our firewalls are subscribed to the max when it comes to IPS, IDS, and file inspection. To get the licenses, they have to know how many firewalls etc. we have. We have an issue where one of our firewalls went down — it's in an HA so we're still up and functional — but it's still in a down state and we're working through it right now. We contacted them because all of a sudden we found out, hey, we don't have Smart Net. We pay them to manage our Smart Net contracts because it can be quite a hassle.

The question is, how can we not have Smart Net on a product that we know that we own. To get the subscription they know that we have X number of firewalls. When they renewed Smart Net they should know that there are that X number of firewalls in there, but there weren't. We run into a lot of that. We buy subscriptions for this, or there are yearly costs associated with that, but then when we match it up to Smart Net, we find out we don't have Smart Net on it or vice-versa. They have the numbers for subscriptions so they should be able to take those numbers and make sure that the Smart Net numbers match up with them. Or, they have the numbers for Smart Net and should be able to make sure we have the proper subscriptions lined up with it as well. That's been a frustrating point for us.

Other than those couple items, we had really good luck with them and they've been really good to us.

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EV
IT Technical Manager at Adventist Health

We did not actually use any external authority as far as setting up, maintenance, and configuration. It all comes directly from Cisco because of our partnership with Cisco, we have had a fantastic cast of system engineers and techs when needed. We haven't had to go out of our partnership with Cisco to actually implement these, to upgrade, or update.

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Network Administrator at Cluj County Council

I worked with a consultant who sold me the product and helped me with minor issues as needed. 

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PS
System Engineer at Telekom Deutschland GmbH

We mostly try to do it ourselves. Our approach is to have knowledge or any certification of the topic we are trying to take.

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JS
Senior Network Engineer at Orvis

We did it through a consultant, Presidio. They had two people on it. Other than that, they were pretty good.

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Fredrik Vikstrom - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at Skellefteå Kommun

For some parts, we took the help of a third party called ITEA. Our experience with them was good.

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Chuck Holley - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Networking at Albemarle Corporation

We utilized our partner, ConvergeOne, for the integration, and they were exceptional. They demonstrated sharp skills, and together we successfully completed the job. The entire process took us a year during which we managed to cover every site within our company.

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MR
Security Officer at a government

We use JKS Systems. We've been with them for 16-plus years, so our experience with them has been pretty good. They help with our networking needs.

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MW
Executive Vice President, Head of Global Internet Network (GIN) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

In our company in Germany, just for the security solutions, we have about 20 to 30 engineers. They are experienced in different areas. For the firewalls, we have 10 engineers.

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DavidMayer - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For deployment, we worked with our partner who helped us a little bit with the migration. Our partner's engineer had good knowledge and supported us when we had questions. When we didn't know how to do something, they helped us with that.

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AK
Senior Information Security Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have security specialists to manage the solution.

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NH
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We implemented it on our own.

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Marijo Sutlovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information Security at Otp banka d.d.

We have a very reliable partner who helps us with Cisco products. They helped us to deploy Cisco Secure Firewall. I think it's important for every company to have local partners with enough knowledge and experience on whom they can rely. 

Our experience working with our partner was great. They have a lot of knowledge and experience with implementation.

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Isaiah Etuk - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Digital & Technical Officer at Capital Express Assurance Limited

We had a consultant from a local vendor here called Incognito. Our experience with him was good. I can refer him to anybody.

When we have issues and we need improvement, he comes in. There was a time we noticed that we had lag on our network. We were trying to figure out the cause for it. We were using two service providers but the same backbone. We called him to make the required modifications.

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FM
Practice Lead at IPConsul

I am working for a Cisco Professional Services Partner. We have only one guy deploying the devices. We don't require a big team to deploy it. In terms of configuration, it takes more people based on each person's skills because you have multiple areas: firewalls, IPS, knots, and routing. So, it depends on which skills will be required the most.

For maintenance on an average small to medium customer, it takes one to two people. When it is a big customer with multiple sites, you should have a small team of four to five people. This is because it is mostly not about creating the rules, but more about checking and analyzing the logs coming through Cisco Firepower Manager Center.

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BW
Network Security Team Lead at a government with 10,001+ employees

We have a reseller that we go through, and they helped implement Cisco Secure Firewall for us.

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Achilleas Katsaros - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Network Fixed & Mobile at OTE Group

We are deploying with the help of a partner. 

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Samson Belete - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We implemented ourselves. 

Two technical guys deployed it and now maintain it.

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DC
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Depending on the situation, we will go through the typical setups. We know what we want to configure and sort of follow a template.

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MB
Cyber Security Practice Lead at Eazi Security

We normally always try to pre-stage, spinning up virtual FMC and VMware, then configure as much as possible before adding an appliance in. It can be a bit more challenging if you have a lot of FTDs at different sites because you need to be aware that you may be managing a device on an internal IP address while you are pre-staging, but that address may change when you deploy the solution. You just have to think that through, in terms of how Firepower Management Center will keep its connectivity to the device once you deploy it. So, if Firepower Management Center and appliances are all on the same local area network, then it is straightforward. However, it is when you have multiple appliances at different sites that it can be a bit more tricky to make sure that the connectivity is maintained when you deploy. I think some more guidance around this would be good. We have a process that works for us, but it took a bit of figuring out with Cisco TAC to make sure we were not missing anything. If they could maybe document it a bit better, that would be good.

Normally, someone like myself could set everything up, so you wouldn't need a big team. However, if you are doing integrations with something like Active Directory, then you need the person who administers that system to be involved. Likewise, if you are doing site-to-site VPN tunnels with third-parties, then you probably need someone from that third-party organization involved. Most of the configurations can be done by one person. You do need to let the Firepower discovery run for around two weeks before you then run the recommendations around which IPS rules to apply, but it would be possible to just select one of the base policies and leave it at that.

You could choose to run the network discovery, which you should do anyway because there are added benefits, for two weeks then choose the Firepower recommendations. However, if you didn't have time to do that, or that wasn't an option for some reason, you could just choose one of the base IPS policies, like Security over Connectivity or Balance, and that would work out-of-the-box.

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AI
Head of Technology at Computer Services Ltd.

I did the installation myself and it took 48-50 hours, approximately, in the Transfer mode. We had a further two-hour window of augmenting and transforming the data. We were able to do that successfully. Eventually, we were able to transform the entire network setup.

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JATINNAGPAL - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager/Security Operations Center Manager at RailTel Corporation of India Ltd

We used an integrator for deployment. Overall, the experience was positive. 

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Nagendra Nekkala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

Two engineers were involved in the solution's deployment, which took one week.

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HP
Senior Solutions Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We deliver the solution to our customers.

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DJ
IT Consultant at ACP IT Solutions AG

I deployed it myself with, and perhaps with one person from the client's end.

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PR
Senior Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used a partner, CDW, to help us with the deployment. Our experience with CDW was good.

Internally, it was just me for the deployment.

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Jure Martinčič - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Specialist at Telekom Slovenije

My colleagues and I did the deployment. We are an internal team. We are integrators, so we were able to do it by ourselves.

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MB
Director IT Security at a wellness & fitness company with 5,001-10,000 employees

If we needed to address something with Cisco directly regarding Firepower support, that was also addressed fairly quickly with no issues.

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MS
VSO at Navitas Life Sciences

We were engaged with a local vendor, NTT Dimension Data, who is a Cisco partner. They were more involved on the implementation and migration of the firewall. Some channels were reconfigured, along with some URL filtering and other policies that we used for configuration or migration to the new server.

Our experience with NTT Dimension Data has been good. We have been using them these past four to five years.

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KB
Data center design at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We deployed with a consultant from Cisco support. Our experience with them was good. They provided a lot of documentation ahead of time to help us with our configuration.

From our side there were two people involved. One was doing the configuration and the other person was checking to make sure there were no errors, looking at IPs and the like.

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CT
Analytical Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

It was a self-deployment. It took eight people to deploy.

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LS
Network Administrator at Bodiva

We use implementation consultants for the full deployment and it took approximately two weeks to complete.

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TI
Senior Network Consultant at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a partner for Cisco products. We have a contract with a new partner now for the SDA fabric on ACI.

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RW
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Conscia assisted us with implementation.

They are one of the best in the Netherlands.

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IK
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used Cisco’s support to deploy the product.

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Tim Maina - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used a Cisco reseller called LookingPoint. I would recommend them. We've done a lot of other projects with them as well.

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RG
Network & Security Engineer at Oman LNG L.L.C.

We have vendor support. They are a partner of Cisco. When we buy the hardware devices, the vendor has the responsibility to do the implementation and configurations. We do coordinate with them in terms of providing the space and network details such as IP addresses, network type, subnets, etc. We also provide logical diagrams. We monitor the configuration, and after the configuration is done, we check how the network is working and performing.

We have an IT department that includes an applications group, a hardware group, and a security group. There are also Network Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 teams. The Level 1 team only takes care of the network side. The Level 2 and Level 3 teams do almost similar work, but the Level 3 team is a bit at a higher level in IT security. The Level 2 and Level 3 teams take care of firewalls-level and security-level configuration, policy upgrade, etc. They manage all network devices. Overall, we have around 20 members in our department.

For the maintenance of Firepower, two guys are there. A Level 2 engineer takes care of policy creation and deployment for new networks. A Level 3 engineer takes care of a new firewall, upgrades, and network design and architecture.

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MB
Voice and data infrastructure specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We handled the implementation in-house. 

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RF
Data Analyst at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees

We're handing the implementation via our own in-house team.

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Vinay-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT & Security at mCarbon Tech Innovations Pvt., Ltd.

I completed the installation myself. We did not use a vendor or vendor team.

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MC
System programmer 2 at a government with 10,001+ employees

For the deployment, we had about 18 team members including firewall administrators, Cisco firewall engineers, and techs.

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RS
Senior network security, engineer and architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used a reseller, FedData. Our experience with them was good.

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AS
Senior Network Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It was deployed in-house. Depending on the solution and its complexity, it could take a single person to a team of 20 people to deploy it.

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ZK
Lead Network Security Engineer at TechnoCore LTD

All of the implementations that we have done are with in-house teams, so I have no overview of the vendor team.

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AM
Network Engineer at LEPL Smart Logic

I deployed it myself, and it took me two days to deploy two clusters of Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall. 

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EV
IT Infrastructure Specialist at RANDON S.A

The name of the local partner we use here in Brazil is InfraTI.

For the first deployment we had to understand how to do it because of the constraints. We have the router and we have the next-gen firewalls running inside the router. Until we decided how to deploy, it took a little while. But now we have the knowledge to do that more easily. They are able to deploy it satisfactorily. We are happy with them.

For deployment and maintenance of the solution, it requires two people and our partner. On our side there is an engineer to discuss the details, and then there is the person who does the deployment itself.

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LF
Security Governance at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Implementation was performed by a Cisco recommended local partner. 

We were not satisfied at all (from the pre to post implementation). Their level of expertise was zero.

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VG
Co-Founder at Multitechservers

While most of the setup was handled in-house, we did have Cisco help us with the initial configurations.

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Heritier Daya - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We tried to deploy this solution by ourselves, but our team was not quite qualified to implement this solution. It was a good opportunity for us to learn about it. 

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FL
Team leader at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

We deployed this solution in-house.

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MD
Network & Security Administrator at Diamond Bank Plc

I don't have a technical problem implementing Cisco ASA. I am a double CCNNP and I'm preparing for my CCIE. On the technical side, I don't need help.

I had to work with external partners because they provide us with uptake equipment. They're available to follow up on the project with us. 

We just had to make some tests to deploy some labs. However, when it comes to configuring Cisco ASA for production, I was alone. 

On a security basis, we couldn't let the partner know the details of our address space. This is prohibited within our organization by security policies. 

I had to re-do everything from scratch. For this implementation of Cisco ASA & Firepowe, I was alone.

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MF
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We had a consultant for integrating the product. Our experience with the consultant was good.

The number of people required for deployment varies, but one person can deploy the solution. It's quite easy to implement. It doesn't require a lot of staff.

It requires normal maintenance.

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DC
Network Engineer at CoVantage Credit Union

It was just me.

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AG
Consultant at HCL Technologies

As consultants, most of the time we deploy ASA by ourselves. If there is any complexity or issue, we get in touch with a system integrator or we open a ticket with the technical support team.

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it_user212682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

All solutions are designed, configured, and maintained by me.

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SV
Network Support Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We do our own maintenance and there are three or four of us that are responsible for it. I am one of the network administrators. We can also call Cisco if we need support.

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Juan Carlos Saavedra - PeerSpot reviewer
Coordinador de Tecnología at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have five people on our cybersecurity team.

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WM
Head of ICT Infrastructure and Security at City of Harare

We did most of the setup in-house, but we also had assistance from our partner.

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MG
Senior Network Administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used a consultant to assist with implementation.

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MS
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We deploy it ourselves.

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HP
Technical Consulting Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We are the integrators and consultant team. 

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CB
Networking Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial deployment was done by a Cisco partner, Solutel. Our experience with Solutel was fantastic. They are local partners for us and provided us with great service.

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it_user221862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I implemented it myself.

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WM
Consulting Engineer at IV4

I am in charge of installing and configuring our Cisco Firewall solutions.

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SA
Senior Network Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have in-house engineers for the deployment. We haven't used external, third-parties. We are a big institution, based in 36 countries. The team that is focused on this deployment is a team of five. The person who is handling the implementation will be in contact with a local engineer at the remote site, and will assist him, remotely, to do the testing and follow the steps to deploy.

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MC
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In general, I implement the solution myself.

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Ahmed Nagm - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solution Consultant at PCS

We implemented through an in-house team. 

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RM
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We did it ourselves. We had about five network admins for deployment and maintenance.

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PW
Senior Network And Security Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees

From start to finish, including production rollout for other areas, deployment took roughly one month. We did it all in-house.

Some maintenance is required involving security patches. Cisco is really good at deploying those or not deploying those, but putting those out and having release notes and upgrade paths and just the information behind all of their patches. Cisco does a really good job with that.

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SZ
General Manager at MS Solutions Ltd.

We had a company that set everything up for us. They have Cisco engineers and I'm paying them annually for next-business-day support. They do all of the maintenance for us.

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it_user861456 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We didn't use any other group for the deployment. We did all the work in-house.

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WB
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did the implementation myself. ASA is not the newest solution for Cisco or the newest equipment. You can use the vendor and ask for help if you need it during the installation and for support. Because it was an older solution, it was already somewhat familiar to me.

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MT
Information Security Administrator at Bank of Namibia

We used a reseller consultant for the deployment.

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HJ
Senior Executive Technical Support at AITSL

We do the deployment in-house.

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NP
CEO at Synergy IT

We implemented through a UK company called Rackspace. 

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GS
Information Security and Compliance Manager at RSwitch

We used internal resources with support from Cisco.

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Johan Derycke - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Smals vzw

We have a firewall specialist who handles the installation.

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FB
Sr Network Administrator at Orient Petroleum Inc

We had some assistance with a local expert as well as Cisco.

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BS
IT Administrator at Vegol

I did the setup myself. The budget I had didn't allow me to get support. I would use Google a lot. The first implementation took me about three weeks because I did not know what I was doing. So it took me a while. It took me about three weeks, but everything else took about two days, maybe three days and I was done. 

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NA
IT Infrastructure Manager at Beltone Securities Brokerage S.A.E.

We didn't use any consultant for the deployment - we installed and implemented Cisco ASAv ourselves and we didn't experience any problems.

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AA
Technical Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We implemented ourselves. Deployment took around six months. 

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FT
IT Adviser/Manager with 51-200 employees

I once had support from a reseller and once from a provider. Both depended on the level of the person you speak with. Most have some knowledge.

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CM
Network Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used our reseller and contractor to deploy Cisco Firepower. They were good.

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DC
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We got the product from a reseller and we did the installation ourselves.

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FF
Cloud Services Operation Engineer at Informatic Services Company (ISC)

We used both an integrator and reseller for the deployment. For the initialization, it was me for our company. If we have an issue, we can raise a ticket or call for a Cisco patch. 

For the Cisco ASAv installation, I did it myself.

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DF
LAN admin at Cluj County Council

The installation wasn't complicated at all and I got help from a Cisco engineer. 

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GK
IT Manager

I did the implementation by myself. If you decide to do it by yourself, you need basic knowledge. If you don't have that you would need a contractor.

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CS
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used Telekom Romania for the deployment. We did most of the job internally but they helped us to clarify some aspects regarding the architecture design.

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Technolgy Analyst/Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It was done in-house.

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SG
Senior IT Analyst at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

We had help from an integrator, which was Dell. They were helpful.

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it_user1436289 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

We had a service provider who took care of the installation for us.

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MA
Network Security Engineer at qicard

We used a consultant for the implementation. They actually continue to help a lot when we need them for something.

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CS
Information Security Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Our in-house team tested and evaluated the solution.

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IY
Assistant Manager (Infrastructure) at SISTIC

We implemented ourselves with some assistance from the vendor. Some vendor are not expertise in this deployment, possible because of the complexity of the product.

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SC
ICT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm

It was an in-house implementation.

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IA
Group IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Through a vendor and they have good tech

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AA
IT Consultant at MOD

We used a Cisco partner for the implementation. They were knowledgable and did a good job. 

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MA
Team Leader, Information Risk Engineer at National Bank of Egypt

We implemented ourselves. 

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GZ
Data Center Architect at Fronius International

We implemented through our partner and had a good experience with them. 

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EE
Senior Data Scientist & Analytics at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The time it takes to implement depends on the policy of the customer. Practically speaking, it takes around three to four hours to deploy, but it can depend because the Firepower solutions have two parts. One part is the hardware, it is an actual firewall and actual device but the monitoring system and the control system is a software called FMC. Most of the customers deploy it over VMware. The time of deployment really depends on your resources, but on average will take three to four hours.

At least two to three people with professional knowledge, around three years of experience, are needed for the deployment and maintenance, not only for Firepower but in every security solution. The device is doing something, but the most important part is analyzing it. The device can give you logs, but the engineer should analyze the log and do something.

Deployment without inspection can require only one person but if you want to analyze the IPS, at least two people will be needed.

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KS
Technical Services Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I always consider the stability and scalability of a product when choosing a vendor.

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it_user380502 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We implemented the solution in-house.

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VM
Systems Administrator\Ag. IT Manager at a construction company with 201-500 employees

Unfortunately, there were not too many skilled guys who could install it. I had to get a third party for installation and configuration. I had to get somebody qualified in Cisco Security, and he was the only person who could actually configure it well.

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TR
Tier 2 Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a uniform implementation strategy for this solution. We made some basic configurations with a template which we just edited to fit a customer's needs. 

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GV
Architect - Cloud Serviced at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

In my scenario, because I had to learn the entire technology over there and then apply it, it took me around two weeks time to do it. Then the integration, improvisation, and stuff that normally happens took some extra time. You can safely say around two to four weeks period is what it normally takes for deployment. This is based on how the company evaluates the product. It depends on how much you know at that point.

Usually, for the deployment, the company works with Cisco, so they only use Cisco products. I am a DIY person, I did the deployment myself.

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it_user3483 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Unify Square

More than one external team (Cisco partners) has been involved over time.

All of them were outstanding in their work.

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SI
Network and System Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

Initial implementation was through a vendor. I would rate their experience and expertise as 9/10.

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ST
System Engineer at asa

I deployed Firepower with support from the team in India.

We have a team of three people for deployment and maintenance.

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NJ
Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did the deployment myself.

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NJ
Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I implemented Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall on my own.

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JL
Ingénieur technico-commercial at ICBM

I did the implementation by myself.

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it_user1073460 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We used a consultant. They were very helpful. The documentation was quite easy to find for configuring the devices. We thought the boxes would be more parceled or more completely behind, but it was not a problem. The data was there.

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RS
Network Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I am also vendor.

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it_user246819 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Security Architect/Perimeter Systems Administration/Active Directory and System Administrator at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was all in-house, as we all had 10 years plus experience when we moved to PIX firewalls and then a few years later we brought in the ASAs.

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RP
System Administrator at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

The time of implementation took us two to three days. This was in part because we were migrating from another Cisco firewall. The config files were already there, we just had to bring them over. While having the config files we just had to set up the hardware to have us up and running. The install could have taken longer if this was not the case.

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BD
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We implemented this solution in-house.

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Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We implemented it by ourselves and with some support from the Cisco TAC.

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MZ
Middle-Tier Admin Integrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Me, I implemented the firewalls, Cisco switches and routers.

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Cisco Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did it in-house.

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Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

I do not like to have too many vendors it becomes difficult to diagnose and deal with. If all the switches also ran the same, I would be OK. But, this does not usually happen. Often there are many configurations of switches and we end up switching on the switches.

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RS
Network Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I deployed it in-house with my team.

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it_user242529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I am the vendor, and I am an expert with ASA.

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it_user222999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We implemented it in-house.

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it_user234789 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Officer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Implementation was in-house as we have Cisco experts.

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SK
Senior MIS Manager at a tech company with 201-500 employees

I did not handle the implementation by myself. Rather, it's done by another team including the original support from Singapore and with license support from headquarters in Japan.

However, our team does handle the implementation in-house, and we can handle the setup for clients as well.

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Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In-house team.

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it_user341043 - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Network Administrator at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees

We did it in-house.

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it_user243879 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I work for a vendor, and we implement the solution for multiple customers.

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RW
Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We handle the implementation for our customers. 

I am a sales engineer, we are mainly in charge of selling the product. In terms of support, we have a department that covers that aspect. Sometimes after implementation, we also provide maintenance support services towards the whole project and sell it as a whole bundle. As a distributor, we also sell our products, our equipment, and devices. So the support team covers that aspect.

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ED
Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity

We implemented in-house.

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TS
IT Administration at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

Just one person is required for maintenance.

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it_user293883 - PeerSpot reviewer
System/Network administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We implemented ASA without vendor support. For first time implementation, it is good to have someone with ASA experience involved.

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Business Development Director with 51-200 employees

We did it in-house.

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ME
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I did the deployment myself.

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KS
CEO & Co-Founder at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We took the help of a reseller for the initial configuration. 

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Senior Technical Consultant - Network and Security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I was the implementor for a client.

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Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I implemented it myself.

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Senior Network Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees

We used a mix of both - vendor help and in-house.

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it_user150300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
MZ
Program director at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

I used to implement it several years ago, but now I ask our engineer to do it.

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I.T. Security/Projects Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I did the implementation with my colleagues.

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Network Security Administrator at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I implemented the solution in-house.

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ICT Manager with 1-10 employees

We needed a Cisco technician to do the initial setup. We had to outsource the implementation.

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it_user240570 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network, Unix and Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I implemented it by myself.

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BB
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I deployed this product myself.

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it_user241743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network System Engineer with 51-200 employees

As a vendor, we find IT experts with CCIE certifications.

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