Overview
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…
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services review with 1 year of usages
Grand OLD lady past its Prime
Great Cisco appliance with excellent added value in integrated product and services.
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Cisco ASA 5500-X still commanding Respect
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Powerful and fits any size network
ASA Firewalls still a good value for branch offices
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Popular Features
- VPN (30)9.898%
- Active Directory and LDAP (29)9.898%
- Firewall Management Console (30)9.292%
- Content Inspection (29)9.191%
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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…
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Features
Firewall
A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out
- 9.2Identification Technologies(28) Ratings
Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content
- 9Visualization Tools(24) Ratings
Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.
- 9.1Content Inspection(29) Ratings
Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering
- 9.8Policy-based Controls(28) Ratings
Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall
- 9.8Active Directory and LDAP(29) Ratings
Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories
- 9.2Firewall Management Console(30) Ratings
Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management
- 8.8Reporting and Logging(29) Ratings
Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns
- 9.8VPN(30) Ratings
VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses
- 9.8High Availability(28) Ratings
Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working
- 8.1Stateful Inspection(4) Ratings
Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets
- 7.2Proxy Server(3) Ratings
A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic
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What is Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services?
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
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Competitors
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-3 of 3)Cisco ASA 5500-X still commanding Respect
- 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.
- Identification Technologies
- 100%10.0
- Visualization Tools
- 80%8.0
- Content Inspection
- 90%9.0
- Active Directory and LDAP
- 100%10.0
- Firewall Management Console
- 90%9.0
- Reporting and Logging
- 80%8.0
- VPN
- 100%10.0
- High Availability
- 100%10.0
- Once deployed and running, the firewall is very robust which means less downtime and more production with great ROI.
- This firewall has a long life span and even if it's reaching the end of life cisco continues to support the product which means you can continue to rely on the firewall and also keep getting software updates, and security updates.
- When managed centrally, management is improved, and policies can be changed once and applied to all firewalls in one go.
- Cisco Nexus switches as Core routers connecting a customer site to the datacenter via a private WAN.
- Trunking between the 5508-X and a cisco 3750 switch to allow different VLANs access to the internet via the same firewall.
- Cisco Meraki Access Points behind the 5508-X.
- Integrated Cisco AnyConnect VPNs with SAML to allow single sing on with Office 365 accounts.
- Integrated access to management with Duo to provide MFA for administrators
- We are working on starting Ansible automation
Powerful and fits any size network
- 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
- Content Inspection
- 70%7.0
- Policy-based Controls
- 90%9.0
- Active Directory and LDAP
- 90%9.0
- Firewall Management Console
- 80%8.0
- Reporting and Logging
- 90%9.0
- VPN
- 100%10.0
- High Availability
- 90%9.0
- Stateful Inspection
- 70%7.0
- Proxy Server
- 80%8.0
- Some of the smaller products have good ROI
- The larger units such as 558g are far to too expensive to see a good ROI.
users
developers
- VPN Gateway
- Edge firewall
- Branch firewall
- RAS gateway
- It's the cornerstone of our remote access for home users.
- Firewall
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- none
- ASDM is easy to use
- Support on Cisco.com is very good
- Community is excellent
- Has many how-tos and example configs available
- Sometimes ASDM and JAVA causes us problems
- A better GUI that was based on HTML 5 would be awesome
ASA Firewalls still a good value for branch offices
- 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.
- Identification Technologies
- 70%7.0
- Visualization Tools
- 60%6.0
- Content Inspection
- 70%7.0
- Policy-based Controls
- 70%7.0
- Active Directory and LDAP
- 80%8.0
- Firewall Management Console
- 80%8.0
- Reporting and Logging
- 80%8.0
- VPN
- 90%9.0
- High Availability
- 90%9.0
- The price is competitive with other.
- The licenses to manage IPS and other functions are expensive.
- Any additional feature you need to pay license.
- Hardware is pretty durable.
- Catalyst Products.
- Solarwinds.
- Port Blocking.
- Traffic.
- Business continuity.
- Integration with Solarwinds.
- We can identify traffic use during office hours.
- VPN access
- Price
- Product Usability