We performed a comparison between AWS Firewall Manager 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."Also, the strength of the community is invaluable."
"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."
"Once this solution is set up, we hardly have to touch it."
"It has centralized cloud firewall management rules. It provides compliance in tracking and reporting."
"The most valuable feature is the centrally managed rule. I also like the central orchestration."
"The interface is intuitive and it is easy for the users."
"My clients have never contacted me with any issues, so I believe the solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is the UTM."
"I like its system management and filtering options as a layer seven firewall."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"The platform has significantly enhanced our organization's operations by providing secure communication channels between different office locations."
"Scalability is not an issue as long as you are able to buy additional licenses. Ten percent of our customers use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, and we have large accounts with 50% of their end users behind this firewall."
"The most valuable features are the Virtual Private Network and the Electronic Control Lists."
"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"
"The system should be more customizable."
"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."
"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."
"It's not very user-friendly and can be somewhat disorganized."
"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."
"Due to the lack of enough tutorials available online, I face problems with Cisco."
"The performance of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could be improved."
"Cisco Firepower has been effective in solving various problems, but it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly like Fortinet."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's logging functionality could be improved."
"Areas for improvement include pricing points and the range of products available at any given time."
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AWS Firewall Manager is ranked 8th in Firewall Security Management with 6 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews. AWS Firewall Manager is rated 7.8, while Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Firewall Manager writes "Streamlining security and enhanced file transfer control". 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". AWS Firewall Manager is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Azure Firewall Manager, Tufin Orchestration Suite and FireMon Security Manager, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FireMon Security Manager and Cisco Defense Orchestrator. See our AWS Firewall Manager vs. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center report.
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