topic Re: firewall requirement in Network Security

firewall requirement

mateens — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:58:47 GMT

Hi,

Customer with around 2000 employees and 2-300 servers / applications also need IPS. Which model you guys suggest ?

Re: firewall requirement

Rob Ingram — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:04:46 GMT

Hi @mateens

There are a lot of factors to consider, the more features you enable, the less performance you get.

What bandwidth do you have?

Best to check the datasheet, they have the projected performance depending on what features you have enabled.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/firepower-2100-series/datasheet-c78-742473.html

HTH

Re: firewall requirement

balaji.bandi — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:08:39 GMT

You also need to consider Internet bandwidth / Uplink ports

FP 2K good to go for your requirement(make sure you read the datasheet)

https://www.cisco.com/c/en_uk/products/security/firepower-2100-series/index.html#~stickynav=2

Re: firewall requirement

Oliver Kaiser — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 10:22:33 GMT

Since you are probably working for a partner I would recommend using the NGFW sizing tool to find the right appliance for your usecase: https://ngfwpe.cisco.com/dashboard

As always with sizing it is very hard to recommend any specific model, without knowing the exact requirements, features that will be used and partly the traffic patterns the box will need to handle. Before commiting to a model you might want to reach out to your local SE for them to validate the design with you, nothing is more frustrating than buying/selling a costly network security appliance just to find out that the sizing did not fit the requirements. 😉

Hope that helps