Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
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9.3
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Firewall Management Console (27)
8.7
87%
Reporting and Logging (27)
8.6
86%
Content Inspection (27)
8.0
80%
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What is Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services?
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is a security appliance solution designed to empower users to beat sophisticated cyber attacks. This solution is a threat-focused next-generation firewall.
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Features
Firewall Features
- Supported: Identification Technologies
- Supported: Visualization Tools
- Supported: Content Inspection
- Supported: Policy-based Controls
- Supported: Active Directory and LDAP
- Supported: Firewall Management Console
- Supported: Reporting and Logging
- Supported: VPN
- Supported: High Availability
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Operating Systems | Windows |
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What is Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services?
Cisco offers a threat-focused next-generation firewall (NGFW), the ASA 5500-X Series. The ASA 5500 Series platforms can run either the Cisco ASA Firewall or Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). The series features appliances in a variety of form factors, including standalone options for small and midsize businesses, ruggedized appliances for extreme environments, midsize appliances for security at the Internet edge, and high-performance appliances for enterprise data centers.
What are Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services's top competitors?
pfSense, WatchGuard Network Security, and SonicWall TZ are common alternatives for Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services.
What is Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services's best feature?
Reviewers rate High Availability highest, with a score of 9.6.
Who uses Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services?
The most common users of Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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June 14, 2022
Cisco ASA 5500-X still commanding Respect
Cisco ASA 5500-X, we have deployed this firewall to most of our customers. We also run a pair of these in our data center and so far we have not experienced any issues with the setup. The firewalls are configured in an active/standby mode allowing connectivity back to the ISP via diverse routes and utilizing BGP. Direct peering with the ISP means we don't require managed layer 3 routers from the ISP, reducing the cost and removing another unneeded layer of hardware, and improving latency.
- High Availability in Active/Acitve mode and the use of virtual context.
- Straight forward software upgrades.
- Provides robust AnyConnect remote access VPN for users.
- The use of a VMware appliance to manage firepower is not really great, as this introduces another on-prem box to manage, this could all be done via the cloud.
- Licensing is never straight forward, this could be improved.
June 13, 2022
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
The Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services can be deployed in a number of different scenarios which can vary from the protection of important business data to or separation of different user groups. I have personally deployed these devices on the perimeter of the network to delimit to internal network from the internet.
- Application visibility and control
- IPS
- AMP
- Local administration
- Complex policies - you need training
- Not as slick as the FTD
- It's not FTD, its an ASA with FIrepower, therefore two areas of configuration
April 22, 2022
Powerful and fits any size network
We use Cisco ASA, 5512, 5515, 5506, 5516, 5525, and 5585. Prior to that we used 5510 and 5540. We have started to use 2130 with ASA. We use them for typically hosting customer with 4- 8 networks, internet access, and a small network of VMs and storage. We supply customers with sportsbook and sports trading applications that we host in our data centres. We also use ASA on our internal site networks. We also use AnyConnect to support all our remote users and home workers. We have over 2000 site VPNs and a number of VPNs to AWS and Azure using VTI. We find these devices are easy to configure and offer very good performance and security features.
- Remote Access with AnyConnect
- Intuitive GUI
- High performance
- Well established product set with Cisco and this means good support
- Easy to Manage and learn
- Easy to deploy VPNs
- 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
December 10, 2021
ASA Firewalls still a good value for branch offices
The Cisco 5500-X is currently used as one of our branch Firewall, it manages traffic from the inside LAN to the WAN, also connects two branches via a site to Site-VPN. Although we are not using the IPS capabilities, we can see all the traffic going in and out.
- Traffic monitoring.
- Site-to-Site VPN.
- IPS (Needs a valid license).
- Stateless Firewall.
- You can upgrade ASA image to Firepower.
- Better integration with Firepower IOS.
- ASA system still using Java for GUI.
- Firepower needs Firesight Management console to manages rules.
November 30, 2021
Next generation firewall || Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER is an advanced firewall designed to detect and prevent a cyber attack on your organization. It gives lots of advanced security features which are fully capable to stop malicious activity in your organization. We have used it for the last 3 years and we have configured the advanced IPS, sandbox, URL filtering, site-to-site VPN, remote VPN, etc.
- Sandbox
- URL filtering.
- IPSEC site to site VPN.
- SSL remote VPN.
- Centralized dashboard.
- Easy CLI commands.
- Low cost.
- Good customer support.
- Advanced IPS.
- Reporting
- Easy to check logs.
- Graphical user interface is little bit slow and sometimes it hangs during configuration.
September 23, 2021
Deep Level Security With Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services is a very good product for complete and deep-level security on your network. All the users of Cisco ASA were facing some options on layer 7 security. Very few features were available so Cisco introduced the FirePOWER Services. Advanced level IDS/IPS, sandboxing, URL filtering, advanced malware protection and other deep-level security for protecting your network.
- Deeply scan every packet through sandbox
- URL filtering
- Advanced malware protection
- Advanced IPS/IDS
- Sandbox
- URL filtering category sync issue.
- Sometimes ASDN hang and not response.
- Very difficult to configure through GUI.
September 13, 2021
Cisco ASA 5500- A firewall with world-class security controls
We used Cisco ASA 5500-SFR in our organization [for] the network security as Cisco is so user friendly. Cisco has the best support (as per my experience) and documentation available open on the internet. Cisco SFR provides the IPS feature to prevent the attacks. Its also reduces the attack surface by using its other technologies i.e. URL filtering etc. Creating the Site to Site /Remote VPN is so easy.
- VPN Services
- User Friendly CLI
- Documentation available openly on internet
- Cisco SFR should work on their URL filtering database as sometimes it doesn't filter the correct categorization.
- Cisco SFR ASDM app crashes sometimes and has room for improvement.
- Cisco has the best CLI commands and [is] easy to use, but I feel it lacks ease in their GUI.
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is being used by each and every employee within our organization. The firewalls help to protect our equipment against malware, viruses, hacking, and all other cyber crimes targeted toward our organization and we always make sure that no intruder has access to any of our systems, this helps us to keep everything intact.
- Threat protection
- Threat detection
- Disaster recovery
- Return on investment
August 31, 2021
Next Generation Firewall with Advanced Features || Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Review
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services was deployed to upgrade the Cisco ASA to a next generation firewall. Lots of security features like deep packet scanning, malware protection, threat detection, and prevention were missing in Cisco ASA, so Cisco launched the FirePOWER Services. It provides us with all features that help us to stop any type of cyber attack on our organization. We [have been] using FirePOWER for the last two years and we are using all services for our company.
- Advanced threat protection
- Cisco Any Connect VPN
- Advanced malware protection
- Advanced Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Prevention Systems
- NAT
- Sandbox
- Smart Licensing
- High availability firewall
- URL filtering
- Content inspection
- Application control
- Site to site VPN
- ACL
- High cost for FirePOWER Services
- Some issues in URL filtering. Like sometimes [it] block[s the] correct URL and mark[s it] as the wrong category
- GUI slowness and crash issue
Cisco ASA FirePOWER is a next-generation firewall (NGFWs) to prevent any type of cyber attack on an organization. it provides URL filtering, cloud-based sandboxing and malware protection, etc. With the help of these features, we can easily protect our organization from any type of cyber attack. We are using FirePOWER services for protection against malware and other dangerous attacks.
- url filtering
- advanced malware protection
- advanced IDS and IPS
- cloud based sandbox
- content filtering
- application control
- ACL
- NAT
- very high cost
- UI is very slow and lots of bugs
[Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] are threat-focused true next-generation firewalls that protect your organization from any type of cyber attack. It provides performance, reliability, and advanced security for small to medium-sized businesses. We are using [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] for our all sites. We are using URL filtering, advanced malware protection, and advanced IPS to protect [our] organization from cyber-attacks.
- Antivirus
- URL filtering
- Anti Spyware
- Advanced Intrusion Prevention System
- Content filtering
- Application layer control
- Remote Access VPN
- Site-to-site VPN
- Integration with Snort
- Rich routing features
- Stateful firewall
- Network Address Translation
- Clustering for high-performance
- Remote access with Cisco AnyConnect VPN
- Cost is very high
- Some issue with URL filtering
- Slowness in UI
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides advanced-level security features like advanced intrusion detection and prevention systems, advanced malware protection, the sandbox for deep packet scan, etc. We were using the Cisco ASA 5525 in our organization but lots of features were missing like application-level security, URL filtering, and many more so we upgraded our firewall and purchased Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services. We are using all these advanced features to protect our organizations.
- Clustering
- Event logging and analysis
- Intrusion prevention
- Malware defense
- Application control
- Security analytics
- Sandbox
- URL filtering
- Email security
- Defense orchestrator
- Very high cost for services
- UI is very slow and not user friendly
- Policy takes time to deploy
In our organization, we were using ASA 5525 but lots of security features were missing so we decided to upgrade [to] the Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services. Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides you very advanced security features to protect your organization and enhance your infrastructure security. Advanced malware protection, sandbox, and URL filtering features are very advanced. With the help of these features, we can easily protect our organization from any type of security attack.
- URL filtering
- Advanced malware protection
- Advanced IPS/IDS
- Sandbox
- Site to site VPN
- Content filtering
- More control on user traffic
- Content inspection
- GUI is very low
- URL filtering database needs to improve
- High cost
August 16, 2021
Next Generation Firepower Cisco ASA with firepower services.
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is a next-generation firewall. With Cisco as old as 5500 lots of security features like layer 7 security, malware protection, content inspection, URL filtering were missing so Cisco introduced the firepower services. with the help of firepower services, you can protect your organization from any type of external cyber-attacks.
- Advanced malware protection
- Advanced intrusion detection and prevention systems (IPS)
- Anti spam
- Content inspection
- URL filtering
- SSL inspection
- Take lots of time to push the policy
- ASDM is very slow
- High cost
July 26, 2021
Cisco ASA 5500-X with Firepower for Deep Scanning
We are using Cisco ASA 5500-X with Firepower for Sandboxing & Advance IPS & Malware Protection. We are using it for advanced security features implemented in our environment. It also prevents bad actors from any unauthorized access in our environment. We are also using it for remote VPN to connect with our remote branches & easily share the resource.
- High Availability
- Sandboxing
- Anti-Spamming
- IDS
- Nating customization options is not that good
June 21, 2021
Cisco ASA 5500-X Scalable Firewall
We used Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER [Services] in our organization to secure our organization Infra. We were able to secure our network with its security features and also used it to create the Site to Site IPSec VPN with our clients and partner and it worked so smoothly. We used the Remote VPN Cisco AnyConnect to connect the office resources from home.
- Network Security
- Site to Site VPN
- IPS
- URL Filtering
- Categorization issue and false positive
- Packet capture (pcap) not available in troubleshooting
May 29, 2021
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Review
The main problem with Cisco ASA was not security on application level and malware attack so Cisco introduced FirePOWER Services to cover all the parameters for a secure organization. The Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) provide a security solution that helps you to find the threats and enforce the policies before an attack takes place. We have replaced single Cisco ASA with Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services.
- Access Control Policy - means which traffic you want to permitted or denied in a network.
- Advanced intrusion detection and prevention.
- File control to secure your network.
- Advanced Malware protection.
- Application programming interfaces for securing your organization.
- Good performance.
- Support cloud features.
- Very expensive services.
- Cisco SFR ASDN slowness.
May 26, 2021
Cisco ASA 5500 series has your back!
Our Cisco ASA is an integral part of our network. It is our main firewall and responsible for all our VPN connections utilizing Cisco AnyConnect clients. In addition, we fully utilize the FirePOWER services for content filtering and malware detection managed via a VMware appliance running Linux. Although not perfect, this device has proven to be a very powerful robust piece of hardware which I would highly recommend.
- Policy based content filtering.
- VPN services are excellent.
- Very robust firewall.
- Learning curve for unfamiliar users.
- Yearly license costs for content and malware protection.
Lots of security features were missing in Cisco ASA so Cisco launched the Firepower services to add on and [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] is very good and trustworthy. The advanced malware protection and IPS is best option to protect your organization. I am using firepower services for the last 2 years and I am very happy with the services and security features.
- Advanced malware protection is one of the best security features providing by firepower
- Advanced IPS
- Sandbox
- Anti spam
- Every time available technical support for help you
- ASDN is not good option for configuration. It [got] stuck and crashed during the push policy
- Very expensive as compare to other companies
Our ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is used on our network to protect our large branch from external threats such as hackers, ransomware, malware in general and denial of service attacks. The model in question is the Cisco ASA 5545-x with layer 7 protection features, web content filter, anti-virus, anti-spam and VPN. We have two units with the ultimate goal of creating a significant protection redundancy. The appliance allows us to access servers, internal services from a VPN client with a cryptographic tunnel.
- Complete network protection against external attacks
- Anti-malware solution
- Anti-spam solution with AMP
- IPS Solution
- Url filter solution and application control
- Ipsec and ssl VPN
- The appliance overloads a lot and degrades performance by enabling all ASA Firepower services.
- Warranty service with expensive value.
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is the true next generation introduced by Cisco. It fulfills layer 7 security and lots of security features to prevent any kind of attacks in your organization. they are offering advanced malware protection, advanced intrusion prevention and content filtering. I updated my Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER in my organization.
- Capable to provide advanced malware protection
- Amazing technical support
- Advanced IPS/IDS
- Easy to deploy
- Issues with URL filtering sometime fall in wrong category
- Application control features not available
March 09, 2021
Best choice for your network
We are using Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services--mainly the 5516-X in the active/standby modes--in our organization to build OT/process control networks. This is the perfect solution to isolate and segment your production environment from the business network.
- 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.
- New models do not support switch ports.
February 13, 2021
Cisco ASA 5500-X with Firepower adds next generation features to the classic Cisco Firewall
We use several Cisco ASA's with FirePOWER [Services] throughout our organization. They serve as edge firewalls that touch the internet as well as internal networks that need to be walled off from the outside. The added security of the firepower services within the ASA bring the ASA up to speed as far as next generation firewall are concerned. I use a range of sizes of ASA-5500-X models from the smaller 5506-X to the 55250-X. Depending on the type and amount of traffic that will be going through will determine which one was used. In general I would say the performance of these units is on par with the industry as long as they were sized correctly. I feel they have a done a good job at securing the networks they protect.
- Intrusion Detection
- Intrusion Prevention
- Integration with AMP
- Network Address Translations
- Securing multiple networks
- 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
November 17, 2020
Cisco ASA 5500-X Review
The Cisco ASA firewall is being used to protect the environment from external threats and viruses. We also use it for external access to our servers i.e. port forwarding, DMZ and the guest wifi access also gets restricted via the firewall. Our users can also access our environment externally from the SSL VPN which is configured on the firewall.
- SSL VPN
- Port Forwarding
- Threat Control
- DMZ
- Remote access
- User friendliness
- Additional features similar to other competitor firewalls
- Licensing cost compared to other vendor brands
August 31, 2020
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FIREPOWER Review
The Cisco ASA 5500-X was used by our clients as a perimeter firewall. It addresses the problems of malware detection and potential attacks outside the organization.
- Easy to connect remote access VPN
- URL Filtering
- With Cisco ASDM Dashboard
- Upgrade paths
- Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) platform has slow GUI
- Firewalls require a complete refresh to transition.