# Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) Reviews **Vendor:** Cisco **Category:** [Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/intrusion-detection-and-prevention-systems-idps) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) High performance. Resiliency. Security operations empowerment. NGIPS receives new policy rules and signatures every two hours, so your security is always up to date. ## Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) Reviews ### 1. offers a logical & essential progression of capabilities needed to protect network emerging threats. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdul M. | DevOps Engineer and Cybersecurity, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** As cyberattacks evolve, network security requires unparalleled visibility and intelligence covering all threats for comprehensive protection. And with differing organizational responsibilities and agendas, you need a consistent security enforcement mechanism.Cisco is number one in the technical support. It's good technical support and this is actually a problem when we do the recruitment for some other products. Other products you are on hold forever and the support might be not the best compared to Cisco. These increasing operational demands call for a renewed focus on dedicated Secure IPS to provide a deeper level of security and visibility for the enterprise.The features that I find most valuable are the DDoS protection, IPS/IDS, and Firepower for web application filtering and their fingerprints are good in terms of how they whitelist and blacklist.In the virtual deployment, you have a couple of choices depending on your needs and how much bandwidth you have that needs to be inspected.Technical support is quite good. With firewalls, the last cases I had with Cisco were professionally handled quite quickly and it was great. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** The file trajectory, the trace in contamination files, could be improved. **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Patient privacy is our more priority. The system can be provided to confidence to us and protect that sensitive information. ### 2. IPS definitions are available/patched immediately but some attacks as experinced aren't neutralised **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aitizaz S. | IT and Cloud Network Security Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Customization and pre-processor rules. Well-managed portal to effectively identify signatures. High throughput and performance. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Port scan rules have been causing many problems initially. It was either disabled or limited to specific flows that controlled it. As experienced, some signature rules failed to protect the vulnerability attack of remote code execution at Windows 2013 server. The signatures were patched and enabled, but required protection wasn't achieved. **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Effective parameter security and intrusions identification. Industry first High-throughput IPS that could provide intrusion analysis of every flow into our orgniztion with very high number of enabled signatures. With pre-processor rules we enabled pre-defined rule for our legacy telco applictions. ### 3. Empowering defenders - NGIPS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aayush c. | System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Today's complex networks demand a robust threat detection and containment approach. Safeguarding network assets and data from today's threats requires detailed visibility into all network layers, content and resources no matter where they are deployed. A well designed NGIPS can provide visibility, threat detection and response that remain unavailable to firewall inspection. An NGIPS can be set to fail-open so traffic will always flow and business is not impacted by NGIPS failure. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Enabling IPS functions can impose considerable performance degradation on traffic. **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** There were many port scan events which are all blocked now by checking signature All malicious ips are blocked automatically. List updates after every 2 hours. Now we have a clean path to see threats and harden defenses ### 4. NGIPS is recommended when it is part of an Ngfw because the individual set of rules can contain IPS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David C. | Principal Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Helps detect potential attacks, malformed packets, block based on traffic behavior **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** It most of the times impact network performance, sometimes blocking based on traffic behavior can block legit traffic flow needed **Recommendations to others considering Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS):** First analyze the network segment where you want to implement this, account for performance degradation not that much but a little bit more, **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have PCI audit in which having an NGIPS for healthcare, banks and different type of customers this is required because of the PI/PII information protection. Benefits on actual protection whether on a DMZ/campus/ data center network ### 5. high cost device, low security, OS full of bugs, terrible overpriced support **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Policy creation and deployment, central management **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** upgrade - it's not getting better, upgrade mostly break things or will not fix old bugs, instead creates additional bugs **Recommendations to others considering Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS):** As usual, cisco takes (buy) good product (Sourcefire) and in few years it transforms it to overpriced faulty technology with terrible support. **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Low rate of malware detection, faulty OS, sometimes faulty hardware, epic was when cisco says that the device we claim to have, we cannot have because it belongs to another customer in US. Well, we have to send them pictures that we really have it. ### 6. It's good product that gives confidence to us and protect that sensitive information. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** As per my observation The integration between Firepower NGIPS and other products, like Cisco ISE and Splunk, is also a key feature of this solution **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** As per my view the interface is little outdated. Cisco could use the latest design language they already used for other platforms **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most valuable are the DDoS protection, IPS/IDS, and Firepower for web application filtering and their fingerprints are good in terms of how they whitelist and blacklist. Benefits:The system provided to confidence to us and protect that sensitive information. ### 7. Cisco NGIPS is very good and It prevents great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad N. | Network Automation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** List of bad sites, porn site, uneligible sites, and also has a good user interface **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Nothing. It has no bad thing that I didn't like. maybe the installation process can be easier **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** we prevent the different attack and find out other vulnerable systems. also we give team access to dashboards ### 8. NGIPS by Cisco is one of the best defenses you can invest in **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher L. | Product solutions engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Concise protection that works well and makes the IT job much easier. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** It can be somewhat complex in the beginning **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Threat protection from the firepower firewall allowing real-time protection and security ### 9. NGIPS IS BEST FOR BFSI SECTOR TO PROTECT FROM LATEST ATTACK **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manzoom Ahmed K. | Network Security Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** NGIPS user interface and security is best **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Heavy physical appliances and heating system **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are blocking external IP ### 10. CCIE 54696 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** NGIPS is easiest and best way to protect systems from untrusted zone. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** NGIPS always requires high performance devices and costly licenses. **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of NGIPS's are now user friendly with GUI. We can easily filter till application layer traffic. Also can use custom signature and update signature from external source. ### 11. NGIPS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** It's capabilities to handle and traffic inspection, including visibility and intelligence covering all threats for comprehensive protection **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** File trajectory and trace in contamination can be improved **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Privacy is most important, system could be provided to confidence to us and protect sensitive information ### 12. Ips **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Relations | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Next generation intrusion prevention systems are capable of identifying malicious activity, collect information about this activity, report it and attempt to block or stop it **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Incapable of preventing zero day attacks **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rather than preventing the signature based malicious activity., it is much more advanced ### 13. They do there job accurately **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Monitoring of traffic base upon signature database **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** I don't know anything specific at the moment **Recommendations to others considering Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS):** Go **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing threatening traffic and blocking of IP from red listed countries ### 14. CISCO Firepower NGIPS has the best efficacy! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaden G. | Consultant , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** the thing I like the best is that the NGIPS I believe is constantly receiving new policy rules and signatures every few hours or so which allows our security to be up to date **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** this product has proven helpful so far and haven't encountered any problems yet but this doesn't mean this product is perfect. **Recommendations to others considering Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS):** CISCOs NGIPS is definitely a great choice for a network security solution no matter how big or small the company is! **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** the benefit that NGIPS gives is the constant network security know that its protect from any and all forms of cyber attacks ### 15. Effective PErformance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nalini S. | Account Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** This is the best option on top of the firewalls. I like to call it as the firewall of the firewall. It helps in access control, meet the best compliance needs and is extremely effective. Firepower 4100 series is the best which comes with Includes AVC, with AMP and URL options. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Requires a comparatively lengthy import process for Snort rules. **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatice Threat containment and scanning upto 600B emails per day helps for large businesses. Threat inspection from 10 to 20 Gbps is easily done. ### 16. IDS of the Future **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** True to their name this IDS delivers. This product meets DOD requirements in all aspects. The firepower management console is my favorite peice of this product. Comprehensive dashboards allow for a tangible defense solution for any size organization. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Some of the aspects are Cisco proprietary and could not work in all evironments. Ensure you read the specifications to see if this the product for your organization. **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complies with all DOD requirements easy to use/train admins, cost effective, supports large Environments. I can not include a screenshot due security reasons. ### 17. Effective tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** Running quietly in the background. Effective and trustworthy security tool. **What do you dislike about Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)?** So far so good. It would be better if I can easily access a summary log. **Recommendations to others considering Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS):** pretty good and reliable product **What problems is Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Patients' information and privacy is our first priority. The system can provide confidence to us and protect those sensitive information. ## Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) Discussions - [What is Ngips Cisco?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ngips-cisco) - [What is a feature of an IPS Cisco?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-feature-of-an-ips-cisco) - [What is a features of an IPS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-a-features-of-an-ips) - [NGIPS](https://www.g2.com/discussions/50683-ngips) - 1 upvote - [How do you create the signatures in order to create an application template?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/50592-how-do-you-create-the-signatures-in-order-to-create-an-application-template) - 1 upvote - [View Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-secure-ips-ngips/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+00%3A51%3A57+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=bad4fa3f-0f12-4631-a95a-f11afcdd06ec&secure%5Btoken%5D=1be3dd98573a2b8ebe7579a70634c9abae9f7f162177e768efcb9dbf6779f016&format=llm_user) ## Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) Features **Prevention** - Intrusion Prevention - Firewall - Encryption - Security hardening - Cloud Data Protection **Detection** - Intrusion Detection - Security Monitoring - Anti-Malware / Malware Detection **Administration** - Compliance - Administration Console - - API / integrations **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance ## Top Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) Alternatives - [Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls](https://www.g2.com/products/palo-alto-networks-next-generation-firewalls/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (163 reviews) - [LevelBlue USM Anywhere](https://www.g2.com/products/levelblue-usm-anywhere/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (102 reviews) - [Snort](https://www.g2.com/products/snort/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (18 reviews)