We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Skybox Security Suite 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."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."
"Cisco's support and services are far superior to any other security product in Pakistan."
"It's a fine solution in terms of scalability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the intrusion prevention system."
"The applied policy inside the firewall is good."
"The solution is useful and powerful."
"The platform has significantly enhanced our organization's operations by providing secure communication channels between different office locations."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"Change Manager is most important because of the impact on each other of a network change or a firewall change. We want to understand this and to know, beforehand, what the impact of a change will be. We are a large network so that is a very important tool."
"It has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs."
"The most valuable feature is the compliance, whether it's access compliance or the configuration compliance, to make sure that all of our devices are configured as they're supposed to be, to limit access as much possible, to follow least-access guidelines."
"The ability to appropriately prioritize vulnerabilities inside the environment, and then to have visibility into the traffic and rule sets of an organization, are two of the top capabilities that I recommend. Skybox is the only one that does both of those in a single platform."
"The most impressive feature is optimization and clean-up."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"Skybox allows organizations to reprioritize the vulnerability they attempt to patch and mitigate, based on the contextual awareness of the network."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center needs to reduce its price."
"The interface is an area that could be improved."
"The IOS and the deploy option could be improved."
"It takes five to seven minutes to push one policy."
"It's not very user-friendly and can be somewhat disorganized."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The solution could improve the number of ports available and load balancing."
"Some duplicated values and security standards are not working in some high-application protocols with Cisco's next-generation firewalls."
"It's expensive."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center writes "A stable and reasonably priced product that protects organizations from malware". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FireMon Security Manager and Cisco Defense Orchestrator, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal. See our Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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