The product has helped us consolidate tools and applications. If we were using another solution, we would have had their firewall, management plane, and other appliances to back that up. Having a product in the Cisco universe definitely does help.

We have several clients who had larger security stacks that they were able to consolidate because they were using separate products for IPS or URL filtering. With Firepower, we were able to consolidate all of those into a single solution.

In recent years through the integration of Firepower threat defense to manage some of the firewalls. We were able to do away with some of our existing firewall management suite. We do still need to use some third-party tools, but that list is decreasing over time.