Cisco ASA Inside The Datacenter
June 12, 2019

Cisco ASA Inside The Datacenter

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA is used to filter access to very specific networks that need isolation from the rest of the information system. Our requirements were to have a good level of security, along with enough flexibility so that we could address unpredictable changes in the feature set that the admins of those networks may demand in the future.

Pros

  • Manageability.
  • Deployment.
  • Security.
  • Set of features apart from simple stateful filtering.

Cons

  • Performance.
  • Clustering.
  • Scalability once setup if you don't go for clustering.
  • Less time debugging.
  • Ownership of the network security is made easier.
  • Debugging between multiple teams is made easier.
Cisco ASA is well suited for situations where you have a short set of rules but need many features that enhance the filtering. For instance, if you have to isolate a network within your information system, in order to give ownership of that specific network to another team, and still have a lot of flexibility on how you interact with that network and your main site network, this is one good way to go.
You can even give access to the other team for monitoring purposes and helping with debugs.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Feature Ratings

Firewall
6.5
Identification Technologies
7
Visualization Tools
6
Content Inspection
4
Policy-based Controls
8
Active Directory and LDAP
8
Firewall Management Console
9
Reporting and Logging
8
VPN
4
High Availability
4
Stateful Inspection
7

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