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"Also, the strength of the community is invaluable.""Once this solution is set up, we hardly have to touch it.""The interface is intuitive and it is easy for the users.""The most valuable feature is the centrally managed rule. I also like the central orchestration.""It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting.""AWS Firewall Manager isn't a separate solution when you create the virtual private cloud (VPC), so you can control the traffic through that security group."

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"The most valuable feature is that you can push one policy or one rule out to several devices at a time.""If our server is blocked, this solution shows us why it is blocked and allows us to update the network routing.""I like the upgrade feature. That is pretty valuable to me because I have dual ASAs and when I go through CDO it does it for me pretty well. It's all done in the back-end and I don't really have to be involved. I just initiate, pick the image, and I pick when I want it done and it just does it, whether I have a single ASA or have a dual ASA.""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.""With Cisco Defense Orchestrator, we can manage the complete Cisco Security solution. It provides a simple and centralized way to manage all products.""For this product, they are very uncharacteristically interested in resolving whatever issue the customer reports. They're really attentive, and they address whatever we bring up as quickly as they can. That's been a very positive aspect of the product.""The bulk changes feature is definitely the most valuable.""There are a lot of templates that are already built-in. They give you quick-to-create and quick-to-apply policies that are typically a little more complicated for people."

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"The system should be more customizable.""Enabling and configuring the logging is not that straightforward.""It needs to be more employee-friendly, and the security management could be more efficient.""They could consider organizing and enhancing documentation in a more structured and chronological manner""This solution is suitable for a small-scale enterprise and may not scale up to a very high volume of traffic or a large number of servers.""I would like to see AWS add some UTM features to the firewall. It would also be great if AWS Firewall had native IPS/IDS. They have the separate IPS/IDS, GuardDuty."

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"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.""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.""CDO doesn't have a report, an official report that I can check daily. It has another module called FTD, but it doesn't have that specifically for ASA. In the reporting, there are a lot of things that aren't there. There is also room for improvement in the daily monitoring.""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.""It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily.""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.""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.""There could be some slight improvements to navigation. In some of the navigation you've got to go back to be able to get into where you need to be once you've made a change. If I make a change, I've then got to go back to submit and send the change."

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  • "The AWS Firewall Manager is a little on the costly side."
  • "The licensing is on a pay-as-you-go basis and we are billed monthly."
  • "From what I've heard from my colleagues, it appears that the pricing is competitive, which influenced our decision to choose this option."
  • "It is a cost-efficient product."
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  • "It is about a $100 per year for an ASA 5506 firewall, and from there it keeps going up if you have a bigger box. For example, the 5516 is $200 to $300 per year."
  • "It's around £500 per unit for a three-year license."
  • "After our free trial was done we got a subscription for three years and it was under $3,000 or so. It's part of the EA we already paid for, so I don't know what it would be if it was a la carte."
  • "It is covered under the CIsco Enterprise License Agreement (ELA). So, it is licensed and ours."
  • "If you compare to what is available on the market, they are in the same range with respect to pricing."
  • "I work with a lot of clients, and the price or value of the Cisco Defense Orchestrator can vary from one client to another. If you have a lot of Cisco solutions, the price of the Cisco Defense Orchestrator is justified. Whereas if you have some security components from other vendors, such as Check Point or Palo Alto. This solution would be a pretty expensive proposition considering that they don't integrate with them well."
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    Top Answer:It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting.
    Top Answer:They provide cost governance plans. We can choose a plan to suit our business requirements. It is a cost-efficient product.
    Top Answer:AWS Firewall Manager could provide more automation. It needs to be more employee-friendly, and the security management could be more efficient.
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    Overview

    AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organization. As new applications are created, Firewall Manager makes it easy to bring new applications and resources into compliance by enforcing a common set of security rules. Now you have a single service to build firewall rules, create security policies, and enforce them in a consistent, hierarchical manner across your entire infrastructure.

    Using AWS Firewall Manager, you can easily roll out AWS WAF rules for your Application Load Balancers, API Gateways, and Amazon CloudFront distributions. Similarly, you can create AWS Shield Advanced protections for your Application Load Balancers, ELB Classic Load Balancers, Elastic IP Addresses and CloudFront distributions. Finally, with AWS Firewall Manager, you can enable security groups for your Amazon EC2 and ENI resource types in Amazon VPCs.

    Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) is a cloud-based management solution designed to ensure streamlined and consistent security policies across the Cisco security portfolio. Specifically tailored to manage all Cisco Secure Firewall form factors (running either ASA or Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software), CDO offers real-time visibility and troubleshooting capabilities, effectively enhancing overall network security.

    CDO addresses the challenges of migration, supporting transitions from on-premises to cloud environments and facilitating the shift from ASA to FTD configurations. As organizations embark on their cloud adoption journey, CDO simplifies provisioning workflows for remote branches, reduces operational expenditures related to inventory management, and offers scalability for multi-cloud deployments.

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    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    Insurance Company of British Columbia, Shawmut
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government6%
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    Manufacturing Company43%
    University14%
    Consumer Goods Company14%
    Healthcare Company14%
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    Computer Software Company43%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Government5%
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    Large Enterprise50%
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    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Midsize Enterprise21%
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    Midsize Enterprise5%
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    AWS Firewall Manager is ranked 8th in Firewall Security Management with 6 reviews while Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management. AWS Firewall Manager is rated 7.8, while Cisco Defense Orchestrator is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AWS Firewall Manager writes "Streamlining security and enhanced file transfer control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Defense Orchestrator writes "Provides visibility into entire infrastructure and bulk changes save time and resources". AWS Firewall Manager is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Azure Firewall Manager, Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and FireMon Security Manager, whereas Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, AlgoSec, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Azure Firewall Manager and FireMon Security Manager.

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