

There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. Try to understand if there is a need, e.g., if there is a need to log this information, get these logs out, and forward to some sort of a SIEM technology or perhaps a data store that you could keep it for later. If I can use one box to solve cloud connectivity problems, and not have to do stuff so statically, the way I have to do things today on them, that would be helpful. There should be more SD-WAN features in the boxes. I would also like to see more features that will help us connect things to the cloud dynamically, and connect things to other sites dynamically. Low deploy times are really good to have. The faster we can deploy changes, the faster we can roll back changes if we have messed something in the configuration. It's very reasonable at 50 seconds, it's not like it used to be in early versions of Firepower, where it was around seven minutes. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. Also, the change-deployment time can always be improved. They are moving more and more in that direction. I'd also like them to continue to approach things from a policy-oriented perspective. Generally, the room for improvement is going to be all UI-related.

I'd like to see Cisco continue its approach to making it easier to navigate the UI and FMC and make it easier to get from point A to point B.
