Cisco ASA Review
May 21, 2019

Cisco ASA Review

Steven Van Jaarsveld | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA is used internally by our organization's IT department to secure the perimeter edge. We also use Cisco ASA in our lab to do testings of multiple client scenarios. We sell Cisco ASA to customers and implement Cisco ASA as well for customers in a project environment. It addresses network security issues on the perimeter and sometimes even in the data centre, however, Cisco Firepower appliances are more well-suited to this implementation.
  • SSL VPN.
  • Site-to-Site VPN.
  • Ease of use and configuration.
  • Easy CLI.
  • Robust.
  • Easy to troubleshoot.
  • ASDM ease-of-use could be improved.
  • Upgrade/migration from previous versions and the way objects are named.
  • Bring in more support contexts in the default licensing.
  • Bring in more support for SSL VPN connections in the default licensing.
  • Customers experience very good and quick ROI after the initial installation and investment.
  • It has provided the required solution.
  • The customer experience has been excellent.
  • Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
When comparing Cisco ASA to other vendors' products we needed to bear in mind that most other security vendors offer a next-gen Firewall solution while the ASA is still a legacy firewall. Based on this, Cisco ASA is by no means a loser here. Cisco ASA is an extremely capable firewall based on the offerings it has and in a legacy firewall shootout is by far the superior firewall.
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Cisco ASA is well suited for customer scenarios where a customer does not need or want next-gen features and only needs legacy firewalling functionality. Cisco ASA is less appropriate in situations where a customer requires next-gen features and network segmentation. In this scenario, a customer should investigate the option of Cisco Firepower appliances running the Firepower threat defense software.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
9
Content Inspection
6
Policy-based Controls
9
Active Directory and LDAP
7
Firewall Management Console
7
Reporting and Logging
9
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
Not Rated