Protect your network with Cisco ASA
February 19, 2026

Protect your network with Cisco ASA

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

Cisco ASA is an excelent solution for protecting your network and allowing traffic from internet to your internal services. The performance is very good, you can administrate the device via CLI and via GUI (ASDM), the deploy via ASDM can take a little longer than CLI but is simplier. We have used Cisco ASA for publishing service to internet and as a gateway to the internet for the internal traffic.

Pros

  • Robust device
  • CLI commands from Cisco
  • You can virtuallize the ASA
  • It can work in HA Failover

Cons

  • There's a bug where you can't have more than 200 host IP allowed in a VPN remote access
  • Sometimes ASDM take a long time to save the changes
  • It can improve the layer 7 filters for internet traffic
  • Allow the remote work with the VPN Remote access
  • Not much maintanence needed (Robust devices)
  • Secure connections from internet to apps and services published
Cisco ASA has the support of the Cisco prestige, ASA devices does not need to have renewing a security licence every year like other products, you can work without problems, the integration with AD, LDAP, ISE, etc are simply and you don't need to pay additional charges, you can work very well with ASA without all the extra licences that Fortinet or other vendors require.

Do you think Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software again?

Yes

It is a very good product for having as your perimeter for your network to internet, it works very good with NAT for publish services, but if you want to have a deep packet inspection on the traffic from your internal network to internet it is not the best solution, you can make IP filter, port filter, but you can't perform IPS functions or full packet inspection.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Feature Ratings

Firewall
8.8
Identification Technologies
8
Visualization Tools
8
Content Inspection
8
Policy-based Controls
8
Active Directory and LDAP
8
Firewall Management Console
9
Reporting and Logging
9
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
9

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