Cisco ASA Review
August 04, 2017
Cisco ASA Review
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA
Enterprise grade protection and monitoring for external connections. Complex and feature packed, but as long as you can afford to employ Cisco professionals then this is a great choice for your network protection.
Scaleable, and with the usual Cisco quality, the feature set is impressive. Best used in a Cisco environment, it is overkill and expensive in a non Cisco environment. Difficult to argue that other loading firewalls do not offer at least as much for a much reduced price, but if you are a Cisco env, then your techs will not thank you for choosing a non Cisco firewall with the associated learning curve.
Scaleable, and with the usual Cisco quality, the feature set is impressive. Best used in a Cisco environment, it is overkill and expensive in a non Cisco environment. Difficult to argue that other loading firewalls do not offer at least as much for a much reduced price, but if you are a Cisco env, then your techs will not thank you for choosing a non Cisco firewall with the associated learning curve.
- Feature set, and commonality with other Cisco products.
- Enterprise grade with plenty of options.
- Security is second to none, and security updates are timely.
- Bring the cost down - It is really expensive to kit out an enterprise with Cisco products. Cisco does little to reward loyal customers.
- Make the graphical interface easier to understand. Command line is fine of expensive techs, but these days (2017) you really should be able to add a command to a firewall without needing a Cisco certification!
- Use of terminology for NAT - Cisco has taken a different course to everyone else and confuse the marketplace by doing this.
- Low maintenance.
- High reliability
- High cost to purchase and support
- Flexibility of configuration
Cisco is an expensive choice against its competition, but when integrated into a Cisco environment then it works very well. They are highly reliable pieces of kit that perform well. No-one ever got fired for buying Cisco (unless they were told to slash the budget!). Cisco works well for us as we have several Cisco trained techs that can cope with its configuration and support.