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What is Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software?
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software is the core operating software for Cisco’s ASA suite. It supports a variety of specialized network security and firewall options, allowing users to modularize to their business needs. It is scaled for enterprises through “clustering” ASAs, enabling 128 Gbps processing load and 50 million concurrent connections.
Cisco ASA provides a robust VPN setup process and integrates with other Cisco security offerings, including Cloud Web security and Trustsec. CWS provides cloud-based systems security across public and private clouds, and Trustsec is a software-defined segmentation product that mitigates the scope of network threats and data breaches. The platform also supports IPv4 and IPv6, enabling a smoother evolution in Internet Protocols for users.
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CiscoASA Firepower
- Routing
- Firewall
- Security
- Ease of use
- Cisco's purchase model is difficult
- Level of skill required
ASA is a good product, migrating to Firepower
- Allows the users to connect to our office network from outside the office.
- Straightforward interface for configuration of firewall rules.
- Support is a little expensive
- The GUI could use an update
- NextGen features
Cisco ASA the best firewall for any scenario
- Easy deployment[.]
- High availability by deploying a pair[.]
- Make changes without having to reboot[.]
- Supports firepower services for IPS and IDS[.]
- 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[.]
- Easy to configure and edit Access rules, allowing users to connect to our office network from anywhere.
- NAT rules and network access protection keep our network safe from unauthorized connections from the outside. We can set them up quickly and easily.
- Customer service and technical assistance are top-notch with Cisco for this product. User web and application traffic can be easily accessed and monitored.
- Infrequent rule/setting changes and an outdated Java plug-in for the Web interface.
- When some appliances and apps don't work, the rules and settings are complex, so GUI-based configuration is not always a better option.
- There is a lack of a learning curve for the full potential of the ASA and Central management features.
Cisco ASA
- Firewall rules.
- Internal communication.
- Integrate with other vendors.
- Pricing.
- Additional license.
- Encryption feature.
Best Stable Firewall for Protection of Your Network
- We can easily manage and configure
- There are a lot of features
- The ASDM makes it easy to set up
- Good customer support
- Excellent in solving company's VPN needs
- Spam protection
- Mail filters
- Lacks internal log management capability
- Has a very high maintenance cost for both support and subscription services
Tried and True, but Lacking Features
- Configuring of basic firewall rules is easy
- Easy to use
- Reliability is good for these 5505 and 5545 Cisco ASAs
- Cisco ASA is aging and Cisco wants you to migrate to FirePower, which I think is still awful
- Java clients are still needed to access [Cisco] ASA functionality
- Hardware is all EOL
Review on Cisco ASA Firewall
- You can easily configure a site-to-site VPN to connect multiple sites securely and also configure a remote VPN for home users.
- You can easily deploy the firewall in your existing network.
- You can easily manage and troubleshoot the issue.
- 24/7/365 technical support helps you to configure the new firewall.
- Lots of technical support documentation available on site.
- You can configure the ASA through ASDN. It is very difficult to configure and manage.
Cisco ASA is top for a traditional firewall/VPN solution.
- Access rule, it's easy to edit them.
- NAT rules, very easily to quickly set up.
- Upgrading, you just point to the new image. It's a fairly simple process.
- It only inspects traffic passing through it. Some other next-gen firewalls are able to inspect internal/lateral traffic as well.
- While the ASDM GUI is great to use, it's a little finicky in terms of the version corresponding to what ASA version.
Cisco ASA - Whether or not it's a good fit for branch or HO
- Connectivity of branches with HO, over MPLS, P2P, and IPSEC with failover configuration.
- Easily able to monitor user web and application traffic.
- Prevention of intruders and attacks from the Internet to harm users' systems in the branch network.
- Stability
- Simple GUI is required
- Reporting
Cisco ASA firewalls are the perfect security device for small and medium-sized businesses.
- AnyConnect Remote VPN
- NAT functionality
- Site-to-Site VPN tunnels
- DHCP
- LDAPS support
- ASDM is still based on Java, not easy to install on newer operating systems
- Not very user friendly for beginners
- ASDM can be difficult to navigate
My Experience with Cisco ASA || Adaptive Security Appliance
- Unified communications capabilities
- Support both IPSec and SSL VPN
- Multi-node clustering
- High-performance
- IPV6 support
- Support advaced routing protocols
- Support policy based routing
- Easy packet flow
- Command line is very simple
- Cisco AnyConnect
- Beginner can't configure ASA through ASDM
- Very slow GUI
- Lots of vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS
Great product, with lots of next generation features.
- Secure the perimeter
- Secure remote users
- Secure network from unauthorized connections initiated from outside
- Secure from zero day attacks
- Cisco ASA can have better GUI compared with other firewall vendors.
- Cisco can make its security cloud better.
My Review on Adaptive Security Appliance Cisco Firewall Product
- Cisco provides a lot of options and ways in the Network Address Translation (NAT), so you can modify it as per your requirement
- Cisco blocks all of the untrusted connections from outside of the network
- Cisco supports AAA
- Cisco supports both IKEv1 and IKEv2
- Site to Site VPN
- Cisco can connect to any remote VPN
- Stateful firewall
- Cisco support quality of service
- Cisco supports modular policy framework
- ACL
- Routing protocols
- Cisco should work on the GUI platform.
My hands-on experience and review of Cisco ASA firewall.
- Site-to-site VPN
- SSL VPN
- NAT functionality
- Reverse proxy
- High availability
- Routed and transparent mode
- Static and dynamic routing protocols
- DHCP
- Fwo factor authentication
- Cisco any connect remote vpn
- Less security feature available for layer 7
- ASDM is not user friendly
- Network address translation
- IPSec support
- Cisco AnyConnect remote vpn support
- QOS
- Policy based routing
- Support all routing protocols
- Stateful firewall
- Transparent firewall
- Support authentication, authorization, and accounting
- Load balancing
- Failover support
- Easy to export and understand reporting and logging
- Many bugs in ASDM platform
- Very less application layer security features support
- Complicated configuration through UI
My review for Cisco ASA, the best Cisco product.
- Failover Feature
- IPsec VPN
- Cisco AnyConnect VPN
- NAT
- Quality of service
- Policy based routing
- Support all routing protocols
- Both IPV4 & IPv6 support
- Load balancing
- Very easy CLI commands
- ACL
- GUI is not user friendly
Cisco ASA Review
- Both site to site and remote VPN support
- IPV4 and IPv6 support
- Stateful filtering firewall
- All routing protocols support
- Clustering
- Support ASA failover
- Modular policy framework
- IKEv1 and IKEv2 support
- Reporting
- Logging
- Advanced level security missing like layer 7 security
- Lots of issues with UI
- ASDM is not user friendly
- Configuration through ASDM is very complicated
Cisco ASA is a good and powerful firewall. Check my review.
- IKEV1 and IKEV2 ipsec site to site vpn
- Nat
- Routing
- QOS
- Easy to configure
- Easy packet flow
- User friendly
- Easy to configure through CLI
- ACL
- Cisco AnyConnect remote vpn
- Ssl vpn
- Reporting
- Logging
- GUI is not good, needs to improve
- Layer 7 security features are missing
My Review of Cisco ASA - One of the Best Firewalls
- IKEV1 and IKVE2 supported ipsec site to site vpn
- SSL and ipsec remote vpn
- Many options in network address translation
- Authentication, authorization, and accounting support
- Supports IPv6
- Routing
- Load balancing in VPN
- Modular policy framework
- Cisco ASA should improve in layer 7 security and deep scanning
- Very difficult to manage and configure the policy through ASAM
Cisco ASA for security & Remote VPN
- High Availability
- Remote VPN
- Easy to configure & Manage because of the GUI
- Cisco ASA doesn't have advance security features such Deep scanning , Sandboxing
- Routing doesn't work properly sometime
Cisco ASA Review
- VPN connection
- Integration with Cisco ISE
- Anyconnect with APX license and AMP4e
- Umbrella roaming client
- VPN SSL without client
- DLP integrated on Anyconnect
- Management on-premise
Cisco ASA for High Availability
- Routing & lots of options in Natting to customize as per the requirement
- Site to Site VPN & Remote VPN for secure communication
- Easy to configure & manage
- Easy to configure the QoS ( Quality of Service )
- ASDN Should be improved
- Need More security for Layer 7
Cisco ASA for best in class security features
- High availability
- Stateful inspection
- Remote VPN
- Customizable Nating
- Layer 7 security is missing
- Lots of issues with policies based routing
Cisco ASA--a good device
- Easy to configure site-to-site and remote VPN
- Easy to remember command line
- Easy to understand packet flow
- NAT
- Policy-based routing
- Advanced routing
- Lots of documentation and training videos available
- Bad and slow GUI
- Less security
- Fewer options for layer seven filtering