Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software is the core OS for the ASA suite. It provides firewall functionality, as well as integration with context-specific Cisco security modules. It is scaled for enterprise-level traffic and connections.	N/A

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	Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
Considered Both Products	Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Verified User Consultant Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software The company has been using Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software for more than 10 years, for the support team its operation is simple, so even though Palo Alto has more functions, we would have a certain cost of investment and time in training the entire team, or we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Integration with Cisco Ecosystem, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software integrates smoothly with other Cisco security products and networking solutions. We have already invested in Cisco networking equipment and infrastructure which is why we chose Cisco Adaptive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software I've used the Firepower to a small extent. It's way better. It does up to layer seven. It does a lot more inspection. It does URL filter. It does IPS, it does antibody, it does all the things that the ASA doesn't do. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Cisco has made it easy to buy, set up, and manage all of our firewalls with the central FirePower Management Center. All licensing is done via one license portal too. Tech support is standardized for all ASA devices and like support engineers who know the different models to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Cisco ASA is doing well, has [a] lot of documents available, [and easy] implementation, however, other vendors are also very easy to deploy. Cisco ASA has [a] great support team. Cisco ASA is truly [a] next-generation product. Now it is cloud-managed, along with zero-touch … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software The ASA led the pack for our use case since we were familiar with it and the ASA (and ASAv) was able to integrated with our environment very easily. We were also able to apply MFA to the ASA with very little effort, further improving our posture. In comparison, other tools were … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software This was selected due to our organization standard and our branch office is using ASA. Integration with the same product is really a good option with ASA. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We moved from older ASAs to Firepower and were excited to see the new features and higher reliability. Throughput is faster and as our old ASAs were breaking down intermittently it was time for the upgrade. The newer GUI has a better dashboard and is easy to maneuver in, easier … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We will be moving to firepower in the next update Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software I am a CCNP and will always go with Cisco because they are more affordable than Palo Altos and yet they do the same job and easy to deploy. Incentivized Helpful? Mst Rahima Khatun Marketing Product Management Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Configuration and management of Cisco's ASA are straightforward. We chose Cisco ASA for many reasons, as well as Cisco's threat response reports. We previously had issues with Sophos UTM due to its poor performance. We no longer have to be concerned about performance issues … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Medeiros Senior Network Administrator Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Palo Altos blow Cisco ASAs away in terms of form and function. They are next-generation firewalls that have very advanced rule sets and AI to help protect your cooperation; however, they are also about 20 times more than a comparable Cisco ASA firewall. Incentivized Helpful? sitaram gurjar System Administrator Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were using the pfSense but we were not happy with the services. We were facing lots of downtime and bugs during the production hours. That's why we selected Cisco ASA. It is a really very good firewall and we haveb't faced any downtime in the last 3 years. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Kerzner Lead Systems Engineer Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Fortinet and SonicWall firewalls are not without their own unique merits, but Cisco ASA devices are our go-to devices for all of our clients' firewall needs. We have found creating and keeping VPN tunnels established is much easier on a Cisco ASA device. Incentivized Helpful? Arpit Singh project lead Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We have a small network so we were using ClearOS for security but this firewall is just a basic functionality so we decided to change and installed the Cisco ASA firewall. Cisco ASA provides us lots of features like NAT, routing, as well as security features for protecting our … Incentivized Helpful? Aryan chahal Project Manager Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We have never used any other firewall. This is the first firewall in our organization and we are very happy with its features and technical support. [Cisco ASA] is easy to configure and we never face any downtime with it. Incentivized Helpful? Richa Chahal Business Analyst Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were not using any firewall before this, so we searched and purchased the Cisco ASA 5525 Series Firewall. It provides us [a] firewall with router features. The performance of this firewall is very good. Incentivized Helpful? Bhupesh Pant IT head Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were using the Sophos firewall but this firewall is very complicated and lots of bugs [are] in this firewall. Lots of [times] we faced the policy misbehave [as well as] downtime. Technical support is also not good so we purchased the Cisco ASA series and after Cisco ASA, we … Incentivized Helpful? Himani Deol project Manager Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We have a startup and this is our first organization. We researched lots of firewalls but the price was very high so we decided to purchase the Cisco ASA. It provides us [a lot] of features at a low cost. Cisco ASA provides us router functionality [as well] so it is easy for us … Incentivized Helpful? Anjali Nair project manager Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were using pfsence before [the] Cisco ASA firewall and we were not happy with pfSense features. Lots of features are missing in pfSence so we decided to install the [Cisco] ASA 5525 and we are very happy with the features. There are lots of options in nat and you can easy to … Incentivized Helpful? Arjun Deol Project Manager Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were not using any firewall before this. I checked the reviews and directly purchased. Incentivized Helpful? Mohit Singh System Engineer Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were using pfSense in our environment before for remote VPN but we were facing continuous configuration misbehave issues. After using Cisco ASA is have resolved our remote VPN & security issues. It has also GUI Based control access so that we can easily check & manage things … Incentivized Helpful? Ankit Singh Network Administrator Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were using pfSense before in our environment but we were facing continuous issues in configuration management & policy-based management. After the implementation of Cisco ASA, it has resolved both the previous problems & also provided us a reliable solution with High … Incentivized Helpful? Chirag Deol Chief Marketing Officer Chose Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software We were using [pfSense] before in our environment but we regularly facing difficulties over it due to software bugs & downtime. After implementing Cisco ASA, it resolved our availability issue & provides us a reliable solution with the best security features & easy to … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Site to site Pro Site vpn Pro Remote vpn
Top Cons	Minus Layer 7 Minus User friendly Minus Security features

Features

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 8.0 49 Ratings 6% below category average
Identification Technologies	7.332 Ratings
Visualization Tools	6.830 Ratings
Content Inspection	8.032 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	9.045 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	8.147 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	8.147 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	5.648 Ratings
VPN	9.248 Ratings
High Availability	9.347 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	8.646 Ratings
Proxy Server	8.031 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (87 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.1 (4 ratings)
Availability	7.5 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (8 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.5 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Cisco ASA's are great for internal network connected access between a firewall and the central management server. And, for complex networks where high security requirements with overly strict compliance are necessary. For networks with limited connectivity to the core or for poor network connectivity these are not the best solution. There are other more stand-alone firewall's that do this better. These firewall's are a little more complex to set up to start with so significant knowledge of these devices is required to set them up and ensure they are best practice installed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Cisco ASA is our VPN concentrator. The client and server are very stable and very easy to use ASA also offers Intrusion Prevention, to an extent. This is also very useful for an improved security posture for a small company ASA allowed us to scale very quickly. We could onboard clients, partners, and consultants and give them a great onboarding experience as well Administrative costs with ASA are low. It's very easy to administer. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Cisco The ASDM software is at times a nightmare to install because of different java versions[.] [The firewall] could do with a power button, just to be able to do a hard reboot when needed[.] It would be nice to manage the firewall via the web on port 443[.] Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Cisco To be honest there has been now great products out in the market compared to Cisco ASA. I beleieve Cisco has to do a lot of improvement in this area. The other defeiniete factors is the cost when it comes to renewals which is always a premium on Cisco products Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Cisco I generally have not noticed the outages, however since it's a machine it can malfunction, we need to implement the firewall infrastructure in such a way that it is highly available with device failure, region failure etc. Else any solution will be having the issues if they are not build with resiliency. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Cisco The support is usually very good and gets back to you very quickly. However I had some instances of when two engineers will give me wildly different answers to what I thought was a simple question. Overall however I do rate the support highly and they are generally always very good. Incentivized Fraser Clark Network Engineer Read full review
Implementation Rating	Cisco It was quite a good one, how ever requires an expertise to deploy hence the SMB segment would be finding it difficult to implement this product. The one good reason is that there are lot of ASA certified engineers in compared to the other certified engineers. Hence this resembles positively on the deployment as you have quite a lot of experienced engineer on your deployment Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco We were using [pfSense] before in our environment but we regularly facing difficulties over it due to software bugs & downtime. After implementing Cisco ASA, it resolved our availability issue & provides us a reliable solution with the best security features & easy to understand GUI. Incentivized Chirag Deol Chief Marketing Officer Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco Most network engineers have worked with ASA, so there is no need for re-training when adding or turning over staff Current configs from older devices plug in easily, and are operational on larger devices if an upgrade is required Many support options available Incentivized Larry Chisholm Network Engineer Read full review
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