'When we are fighting against other competitors for customers, whether it is a small or big business, we feel very comfortable with the price that Firepower has today.'.It includes SecureX that makes it cost-effective as compared to the other solutions where you have to pay for XDR and SOAR capabilities.' 'This solution is expensive and other solutions, such as FortiGate, are cheaper.'.'Their pricing is very aggressive and good.'I am happy with the product in general, including the pricing.'.There is another license for IP Version 2 VPN and IPS.' There is one license for technical support.

Licensing is on a yearly basis for technical support. This could be looked at to see if it could be done in a fairer way.' This is probably not the best way to do it and doesn't represent the best value for money. The licensing, from a Firepower perspective, still requires you to have two licenses, even if the firewalls are in active/standby, which means that you pay for the two licenses, even though you might only be using one firewall any one time. If we have a high availability firewall pair and they are deployed in active/standby rather than active/active, I would expect that we would only pay for one set of licenses because you are using only one firewall at any one time. 'I like the Smart Licensing, because it is more dynamic and easier to keep track of where you are at.

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