Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
We used Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER [Services] in our organization to secure our organization Infra. We were able to secure our network with its security features and also used it to create the Site to Site IPSec VPN with our clients and partner and it worked so smoothly. We used the Remote VPN Cisco AnyConnect to connect the office resources from home.
- Network Security
- Site to Site VPN
- IPS
- URL Filtering
- Categorization issue and false positive
- Packet capture (pcap) not available in troubleshooting
Do you think Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services's feature set?
No
Did Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services again?
No
- Cisco AnyConnect for remote users saved company extra cost
- Smooth Appliance failover
- Content inspection filtering issue
- Automatic VPN failover with secondary link
- Cisco Routers
- Access Points
- Cisco Switches
We are using Cisco AnyConnect to connect the office resources from home and its good to have this kind of tools because it went with so ease. Even when sudden lockdown announced in our Country so all the workforce shifted to home and this AnyConnect became so handy for the users.
In comparison to Sophos Firewall, Cisco ASA 5500-X is still better with Firepower services. Reason is first its support and second its scalability. It has catered the request for all the users in our company without any throughput issue while using the Cisco AnyConnect remote VPN services and Site to Site VPN services.