Cisco Sourcefire SNORT Scalability
The solution is scalable. Every appliance has its limitations concerning its throughput. When we propose an appliance to a customer, we ask about the current requirement and the requirements for the next five years. Then, we suggest to the client that we serve them for the following five-year requirement.
Some appliances support clustering. In the case of horizontal clustering, we can combine multiple appliances to enhance it.
We have 30-40 customers using this solution.
The solution is scalable. On a scale of one to ten for scalability, I give the solution an eight. We have three administrators using the solution and we have plans to acquire additional appliances.
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April 2024
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The solution is scalable. The scalability can depend on the module that is installed.
I rate the scalability of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT an eight out of ten.
View full review »The technical team takes care of it. However, the networking team has a lot of Cisco experience and has been using Cisco for a long time. So I think they are very comfortable with Cisco. I know there are newer solutions like Palo Alto Check Point, but they understand Cisco and guarantee PCIe. We have approximately 10,000 users using the solution in our organization.
View full review »This is a scalable solution that I can apply to any rule I want.
We have approximately five hundred and fifty employees who are protected by this solution.
View full review »Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is scalable.
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NetworkE4b4a
Network Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees
When we recently upgraded our network the scalability of the product became obvious. We're planning to add about 500 extra nodes throughout South America and we're able to scale the platform to be able to utilize the solutions.
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reviewer1420032
Lead Program Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is pretty scalable. The throughput, however, depends on what kind of appliance you are buying. For example, you can have 50 Mbps to 40 Gbps of throughput. Currently, we are using 100 Mbps and, at a couple of smaller locations, we are using 50 Mbps of a throughput receiver.
We're implementing it across locations currently. We're implementing it on an enterprise level. We have close to around 15 major locations, wherein we are using it to align devices that are hosted in our data center or in our critical locations.
As we are still in the early stages, we do plan to continue to use the solution in the future.
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reviewer1200357
Team Lead Manager with 501-1,000 employees
In terms of scalability, I've not really had to look into it due to the fact that the devices we have are accurate for our purposes. I can't really say a lot about scalability because I've not had to. I'm sure they have got configurations where you can maybe put two or three together to scale it up if you need to.
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AhmedElsayed1
Information Security Operations Expert at Asiacell
Scalability-wise, I can see that Cisco is one of the leaders in IPS solutions. However, I cannot comment on it personally because I have not used products by other vendors for this use case.
We have many thousands of machines that are being monitoring by my team, cybersecurity. All of the production traffic goes through Sourcefire. Because of the performance issues, we are unable to use all of the features. For example, we cannot use the SSL policy or the AMP policy.
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GebremichaelTeklemariam
Networking and Security Engineer at IE Network Solutions PLC (Ethiopia)
The solution is scalable and I think it can be integrated with some Cisco devices and other third party devices.
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Sola Ayoade
Chief technology officer at Next Generation Systems Nigeria Limited
The solution is very scalable.
View full review »The scalability of this solution is good.
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NAWAF-TAWAKOL
Pre-Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Scalability is something that Cisco has always cared about. There is no problem with it. For example, if you have one branch and you want to expand to two or three then it will work without any problems.
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Alexander Rudenko
Team Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's scalable. Sourcefire has a classic deployment model and you can scale up through the appliance if you need the same deployment so it's quite simple. It's quite scalable. We mostly work with mid-sized companies.
Sourcefire Snort is the kind of software that is constantly running like 24/7,
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reviewer1057971
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This solution is scalable and reliable.
You can use it in a cluster for one PC or a cluster for two different data centers.
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Cisco Sourcefire SNORT
April 2024
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