Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Review
May 29, 2021

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Review

rahul Verma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

The main problem with Cisco ASA was not security on application level and malware attack so Cisco introduced FirePOWER Services to cover all the parameters for a secure organization. The Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) provide a security solution that helps you to find the threats and enforce the policies before an attack takes place. We have replaced single Cisco ASA with Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services.
  • Access Control Policy - means which traffic you want to permitted or denied in a network.
  • Advanced intrusion detection and prevention.
  • File control to secure your network.
  • Advanced Malware protection.
  • Application programming interfaces for securing your organization.
  • Good performance.
  • Support cloud features.
  • Very expensive services.
  • Cisco SFR ASDN slowness.
  • Not a complicated in implement in existing network.
  • Very expensive support.
  • But technical support is really awesome.
  • Sandboxing
We have implemented sandboxing for scanning the packet deeply. We were facing virus issues for some time so we chose this and are really happy now.
For high security and deep scanning of every packet.
No one can give to support like Cisco. Cisco is one of best and top of every company for customer support. Very helpful and experienced customer support for help in every configuration and implement. Lots of training videos available for any help.
Cisco ASA FirePOWER provides us lots of features like sandboxing and advanced malware protection which provides us more security. But lots of options are missing and more complicated in Sophos XG Firewall. You will face lots of issues during implementation in existing network. CLI commands very difficult and not easy to remember during troubleshooting.
Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000), Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
This service is good for those of you already using Cisco ASA and needing to implement more security and no need take more burden to deploy and configure. This is very easy to configure and easy to implement. Cisco AMP and sandboxing services are very good for find any type of attack and find virus before attack.

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
9
Visualization Tools
10
Content Inspection
10
Policy-based Controls
9
Active Directory and LDAP
8
Firewall Management Console
10
Reporting and Logging
10
VPN
10
High Availability
10