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

• 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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• 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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• Performance when using FirePower services make the unit slow
• Capacity of what the FirePower services need
• The interface is better than ASDM but these still need ASDM and that can be a challenge to get the correct Java version loaded
• Certain 5500-X models are different than previous versions with no switchport options

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• The full suite can be expensive for business but will be powerful enough.
• The full suite for home or small office isn't that bad of a price but may be out of reach for most home users but remember the basics are FREE so anyone can get started with it.
• I would like to see it promoted for mid to large businesses as I think it can handle it.

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• As an integrated appliance, we saved costs on getting other security technologies.
• It provided secure access to our remote users, saving costs and time as our users could get access to the network anywhere and anytime.
• Since we have other Cisco devices, integration was seamless.
• Integration with Active Directory meant we did not need to create addition user accounts.

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• The positive is the savings in time the IT department has recouped by not having to continuously clean and maintain end point computers. Not to mention helping end user use their time more wisely by not wasting time on non-work related web activities.
• The only negative is complaints from end users about the restrictions.

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