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Cisco Security Cloud Control vs. F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCisco Security Cloud Control

by Cisco

F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

by F5

Overall rating4.54.4
Review count1311
Ease of use8.88.6
Ease of setup8.28.3
Quality of support8.98.4
Meets requirements8.68.7
NPS76.92307754.545455
Small Business15.4%54.5%
Mid-Market23.1%18.2%
Enterprise61.5%27.3%
Total page views176135
Total LLM citations77377

Cisco Security Cloud Control

Cisco Security Cloud Control (formerly Cisco Defense Orchestrator) strengthens your security posture through centralized management, real-time visibility, and AI-driven automation. It streamlines operations, optimizes policy enforcement, and ensures consistent protection across both on-premises and cloud environments. With a unified approach, it simplifies scalability, accelerates deployment, and boosts overall efficiency. Security Cloud Control provides deep, cross-platform insights across the Cisco Security Cloud, enabling faster threat detection and easier troubleshooting.

Pros

    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

    F5® BIG-IQ® Centralized Management provides an application-centric and unified point of visibility and control for F5 BIG-IP products and features. BIG-IQ Centralized Management significantly eases the burden of managing the BIG-IP system and offers value to NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps users with automated workflows, intelligent device management, role- and user-specific GUIs and dashboards, and tight third-party integrations.

    Pros