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Stable technology, GUI could be better
February 23, 2017

Stable technology, GUI could be better

Silvija Höger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA

We use CISCO ASA at every location and use it in three modes:
  1. As a VPN concentrator and remote
    access VPN
  2. As an access control firewall
  3. As an internal network segmentation
    security device
  • Failover/HA. The failover and high availability feature works just perfect and you don't really notice them. Sessions stay stable during a failover.
  • Site2site VPN. Easy to establish and is very stable.
  • Remote Access. For the customer a comfortable way to connect to the local infrastructure.
  • Update quality. Some bugs are fixed, but every update provides some new bugs - older fixed bugs come up again
  • The GUI is not really intuitive.
  • Licensing. The whole license thing is still confusing, thank God we have a partner who can tell (but with the SMART Tool, I hope to be more clear).
  • ROI due to the length of time we have had these products in line.
  • Failover technology reduces the failure and outages of a network.
The first evaluation started as I wasn't working at the company. In the late 90s they started with the PIX and some years later they went over to the new security appliance ASA. I don't know whether there had been another product overall at that time.
CISCO ASA is not really intuitive. You'll need a lot of in-depth know-how to get the full use. It's nothing like a plug-and-work technology, you have to do something more. But maybe with CISCO DNS there will something more towards automation. CISCO ASA is a stable, reliable and time-tested platform still supported after over ten years.