Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
33 Ratings
Untangle NG Firewall
16 Ratings

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

33 Ratings
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Score 7.9 out of 100

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Untangle NG Firewall

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Score 9.9 out of 100

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Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

If you were looking for a internet edge firewall and wanted to add the modern day "next gen" features than I would say the [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] would do the job. The packages Cisco offers with the hardware is pretty easy to understand and you can add the right feature sets to it. If you don't need next gen functions for basic NAT/PAT then it still would be a good firewall. If you wanted it for a data center to inspect traffic going from the LAN to the Data Center it would be a good fit. If you do not size these correctly you might quickly run out of performance or capacity when using the FirePOWER Services. The smaller 5506-X with Firepower really seems to struggle when adding FirePower with it. I would say you would be less likely to use it if your organization has more than 100 devices. You would need to move up to a 5508-X, 5512-X or larger units.

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Untangle NG Firewall

Midsized business is where I have used it. Have used it to connect to other Untangle boxes across town and in other countries with NO issues and works with MS Domains across these VPN connections. Probably less appropriate for small home networks or large businesses.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Firewall

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.7
Untangle NG Firewall
9.5
Identification Technologies
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.9
Untangle NG Firewall
9.6
Visualization Tools
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.9
Untangle NG Firewall
9.7
Content Inspection
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.6
Untangle NG Firewall
9.0
Policy-based Controls
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.0
Untangle NG Firewall
9.9
Active Directory and LDAP
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.2
Untangle NG Firewall
8.7
Firewall Management Console
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.8
Untangle NG Firewall
9.7
Reporting and Logging
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.4
Untangle NG Firewall
9.0
VPN
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.5
Untangle NG Firewall
9.9
High Availability
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.4
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0
Stateful Inspection
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
7.7
Untangle NG Firewall
9.3
Proxy Server
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
6.7
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0

Pros

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

  • Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services are very well suited for most environments.
  • Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services have a variety of networking features including NextGen, web content filtering, data analysis, high availability failover, packet inspection, context-based ACL, and other features to protect your networks.
  • It's easy to deploy and manage.

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Untangle NG Firewall

  • Web Filtering is strong, and can also do application fingerprinting to allow Facebook, but not Facebook games. Secondly, a separate partition called a "rack" can be set up to give one subnet or group of users different web filtering policies than another. For example, teachers would get more freedom to browse the web than students at a school.
  • Built-in SD-WAN connectivity as part of your license. IPSEC tunnel creation is also amazingly easy.
  • Will install on any x86 hardware created in the last 5-10 years. Ram and processor requirements per user are very low.
  • Reporting is phenomenal, however you can get death by details very easily.

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Cons

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

  • GUI to be HTML5 rather than needed JAVA and ASDM
  • In relation to Firewall power, the Management console is rather lacking support.
  • Better 10 gig support
  • Cost is high compared to comparative providers of firewalls.
  • Better DNS object support / there are a number of shortfalls
  • Layer 4-7 firewall features
  • Better threat defense options

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Untangle NG Firewall

  • The dashboard could be a little more customizable.
  • I've run into situations where custom reports do not save correctly.
  • It's not always clear where certain configurations are located, but it's still easy to find them quickly.

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Likelihood to Renew

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 8.2
Based on 1 answer
Overall, it does most of the things we want without too much effort. Support is good but expensive.

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Untangle NG Firewall

Untangle NG Firewall 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Service renewal is in Feb 2021. We will be renewing!

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Usability

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 6.9
Based on 2 answers
Cisco firepower provides automatation for an organisations security operations to detect and stop the most advanced threats fast. It also assists in preventing attacks in using intelligence and innovative solutions.

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Untangle NG Firewall

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Performance

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 8.2
Based on 3 answers
[Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] is really powerful at looking at attacks from multiple points. The updates come from the Talos group which is constantly adding new threat updates to the devices. This does give me some peace of mind that we are being protected from the newest viruses. The users who sit behind the firewall have no had any issues with the ASA's performance for general connectivity. If an outside device tries to get in they are blocked without much of an issue. The internal users who sit behind the firewall have no noted any performance issues over the years. I think if you heavily use the firepower services on the box you can tax it pretty hard and that will affect performance. When using the interfaces of the firepower you can watch it struggle sometimes. ASDM doesn't seem to be affected by it as much but when using IDS/IPS you can see performance go down a bit. It's still usable but you can tell it was not designed to handle the most modern engines.

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Support Rating

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 8.0
Based on 7 answers
Cisco TAC support is as painful to deal with as most technical support situations. However, they do offer good online tools that prevent a phone call. When a replacement has been needed, Cisco has sent replacement equipment quickly and well within the service level agreement. Having your ducks in a row (registration, accounts) before you experience an issue can save you time.

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Untangle NG Firewall

Untangle NG Firewall 8.8
Based on 3 answers
I haven't used them much, but they did answer my question quickly.

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Implementation Rating

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 8.2
Based on 2 answers
We find these easy to deploy and we have a process we follow. We normally take 1-2 days to deploy.

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Untangle NG Firewall

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Alternatives Considered

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

I have some familiarity with other products in the firewall space, but I feel that Cisco offers the best ability to integrate all of our data sources together, being that the majority of the infrastructure is Cisco. That being said, Check Point, Fortinet, F5 and others offer strong competition to Cisco.

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Jason Lachowsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Untangle NG Firewall

The Untangle NG Firewall is way more intuitive but the last barracuda I used was almost 8 years ago.

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Return on Investment

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

  • The upgrade from the previous firewalls increased the throughput available by over 100%.
  • The team has direct insight into traffic flowing in and out of the network.
  • It has required a greater staff investment to configure properly.

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Untangle NG Firewall

  • Before my installation, I was getting called 3-4 times a week to clean malware infections. Now I am getting called 3-4 times a year.
  • Employees are far more productive when they can't access their social media from their work computers.
  • Spam has been blocked and quarantined from hitting our users' inboxes, drastically reducing the time it takes to sort through daily email.

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Pricing Details

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
Cisco ASA 5500-X pricing starts at ~$400 and scales up to $20,000 for higher capacity appliances.

Untangle NG Firewall

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Untangle NG Firewall Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition
z4 appliance$2991
z4w appliance$3291
z4 Plus appliance$399.001
z6 appliance$1199.001
z12 appliance$1999.001
z20 appliance$3499.001
  1. one-time purchase
SaaS Edition
Open Source Firewall$0.001
NG Firewall Complete$25.002
  1. free under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
  2. per month
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Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.1
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0

Likelihood to Renew

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.2
Untangle NG Firewall
10.0

Usability

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
6.9
Untangle NG Firewall
—

Performance

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.2
Untangle NG Firewall
—

Support Rating

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.0
Untangle NG Firewall
8.8

Implementation Rating

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
8.2
Untangle NG Firewall
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