In some ways, it is a reactive solution and we have it sitting in a whitelist mode rather than a blacklist mode. It also gives us a little more granularity on what those threats might be.' 'Cisco Secure Firewall is a good solution. With Cisco's Firepower Management, we're able to have that push up to basically one monitor and one UI and be able to track that and stop threats immediately. I spent a lot of manpower trying to track down the individual issues or flare-ups that we would see. Before, we were trying to stamp out security threats and issues, it was a one-off type of way to attack it.

I would rate them as 10 out of 10.' 'Firepower NGFW has improved my organization in several ways. That was nice.' 'Cisco tech is always good and helpful. Cisco's engineer helped us to do some scripting and find out what kind of policy we can have and organize those policies. In fact, we didn't have any policy because we didn't have any firewall for the data center, so generating a policy was a big challenge. Previously, we didn't have a proper policy. We have not encountered any issues related to delays in receiving replacements for malfunctioning devices which has been beneficial.' 'Cisco's engineer helped us with a lot of scripting to see what existed. If any hardware malfunctions, the defective device is removed, and we receive a replacement from the reseller. You can filter on the app rather than on a static TCP port.' 'Collaboration with other Cisco products such as ISE and others is the most valuable feature.' 'Our company operates in Saudi Arabia, primarily working with government sectors.

ASA did this very well.' 'The deep packet inspection is useful, but the most useful feature is application awareness. More capacity needed to be added to our remote VPN. That was a pretty big move, having all our users working from a home. 'With the pandemic, people began working from home.

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