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."
"The platform has significantly enhanced our organization's operations by providing secure communication channels between different office locations."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the intrusion prevention system."
"It's a fine solution in terms of scalability."
"The most valuable aspects are the antivirus and URL filtering."
"The product's user interface is very easy to use and convenient."
"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."
"One of the most valuable features of Cisco Secure Firewalls is their seamless integration with other Cisco products."
"Key features for us include the firewall change audit every week. Also, being able to track firewall ACL usage, so that we can produce semiannual reports on ACL usage and shadowed and redundant rules on the firewall."
"This type of tool does a great job of reaching into those other devices producing risk recommendations, compliance recommendations, and a single plane of glass to do your queries, so you can find where these rules might exist."
"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."
"It shows me a client's or an organization's entire network. I can see everything."
"instead of asking for firewall rules which may or may not be relevant, or could already be there, or could be over-permissioned, Skybox can be used to map out the resources that that application is going to use and provide the exact rules that an application would require to function correctly. If the traffic isn't able to flow for the application, if it's erring out, Skybox can be used to troubleshoot that and say, "All right, where is the traffic being stopped and why, and how do I fix that.""
"We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting."
"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"Cisco firewalls use old ESR or a Linux system, and there are problems with encryption. When we switch on encryption, the throughput goes down."
"The interface is an area that could be improved."
"The product's setup could be easier."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could improve by being less expensive."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's logging functionality could be improved."
"I had a challenging time trying to size the firewall on the cloud. Maybe the information is there, but I couldn't find it easily. Usually, it depends on the cloud provider itself, whether you use AWS or Azure. These guys give you the information, so this part is not as detailed."
"The IOS and the deploy option could be improved."
"Due to the lack of enough tutorials available online, I face problems with Cisco."
"The solution needs to move improve its interface to a full web browser version that is more accessible and doesn't require installation for use."
"The only place where Skybox has room for improvement, and they're working on releasing this, it's just a slow-go, is the UI. The user interface has historically been via a locally installed thick client. They are moving to a web-based console and it's slowly coming out."
"It's expensive."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
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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, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama 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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