My Review on Adaptive Security Appliance Cisco Firewall Product
September 04, 2021

My Review on Adaptive Security Appliance Cisco Firewall Product

Aryan chahal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

We are using Cisco ASA 5525 Security for our organization. We have installed this firewall on two sites. Cisco ASA firewall is easy to configure and manage. Additionally, it provides a bundle of security features like VPN, NAT, Remote VPN, ACL, etc. We have configured IPSec Site to Site VPN on both sites and created a tunnel for secure communication. We have been using this firewall for the last 2 years and have yet to face any issues like downtime, unwanted policy misbehaving, etc.
  • Cisco provides a lot of options and ways in the Network Address Translation (NAT), so you can modify it as per your requirement
  • Cisco blocks all of the untrusted connections from outside of the network
  • Cisco supports AAA
  • Cisco supports both IKEv1 and IKEv2
  • Site to Site VPN
  • Cisco can connect to any remote VPN
  • Stateful firewall
  • Cisco support quality of service
  • Cisco supports modular policy framework
  • ACL
  • Routing protocols
  • Cisco should work on the GUI platform.
  • Easy to configure and manage
  • Very helpful technical support
  • Easy to access documentation and training videos on the Cisco website
  • Good Cisco community
We have never used any other firewall. This is the first firewall in our organization and we are very happy with its features and technical support. [Cisco ASA] is easy to configure and we never face any downtime with it.

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?

Yes

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

Yes

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

Yes

Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000), Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller
Cisco ASA is a well-suited firewall for startup and middle-sized organizations. If you have a very low budget for a firewall then you should buy this firewall. It provides all the security features, as well as routing features too. You don't need to buy router hardware for your organization. You can easily configure the policy and NAT in this firewall. CLI is very easy and user-friendly as well. You can easily import and export the report and log in [to] this.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Feature Ratings

Policy-based Controls
9
Active Directory and LDAP
9
Firewall Management Console
6
Reporting and Logging
10
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
10