Advanced features Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Review
August 18, 2021

Advanced features Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Review

Anjali Nair | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

In our organization, we were using ASA 5525 but lots of security features were missing so we decided to upgrade [to] the Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services. Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides you very advanced security features to protect your organization and enhance your infrastructure security. Advanced malware protection, sandbox, and URL filtering features are very advanced. With the help of these features, we can easily protect our organization from any type of security attack.
  • URL filtering
  • Advanced malware protection
  • Advanced IPS/IDS
  • Sandbox
  • Site to site VPN
  • Content filtering
  • More control on user traffic
  • Content inspection
  • GUI is very low
  • URL filtering database needs to improve
  • High cost

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?

Yes

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?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services again?

Yes

  • Good technical support
  • Lots of documentation available for help
  • High cost
We never used this feature till now.
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides lots of very advanced features like sandbox, IPS and malware protection which are very good. These features are updated day to day so it can help you with any type of the latest attack. Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services also provides a live dashboard so you can easy to monitor the logs.
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services [has] 24/7, 365 support [and] is always best for any product. I opened tickets lots of times on the Cisco portal and I received the support call within the SLA. Lots of documentation and training videos are available on-site to help in configuration and managing. Support teams are highly experienced.
  • Cisco ASA
We were using Cisco ASA 5525 but lots of security features were missing so we decided to upgrade with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services. Now we are using advanced features like sandbox, IPS, malware protection, URL filtering, etc.
If you are already using Cisco ASA and facing issue[s] with low security features, then you should upgrade [to] the Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services. It provides you very advanced features like sandbox, advanced malware protection, IPS, etc. With the help of these features you can easily protect your organization.

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Feature Ratings

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