Item: Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Rating: 10
Author: Arpit Singh

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] are threat-focused true next-generation firewalls that protect your organization from any type of cyber attack. It provides performance, reliability, and advanced security for small to medium-sized businesses. We are using [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] for our all sites. We are using URL filtering, advanced malware protection, and advanced IPS to protect [our] organization from cyber-attacks.

Pros and Cons

Antivirus
URL filtering
Anti Spyware
Advanced Intrusion Prevention System
Content filtering
Application layer control
Remote Access VPN
Site-to-site VPN
Integration with Snort
Rich routing features
Stateful firewall
Network Address Translation
Clustering for high-performance
Remote access with Cisco AnyConnect VPN

Cost is very high
Some issue with URL filtering
Slowness in UI

Key Insights

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

Return on Investment

24/7 365 technical support
Lots of study material available
Lots of training videos
Very high cost

Systems Integrated With

Cisco AnyConnect

We have configured Cisco AnyConnect in our organization [to] provide our local sever and services access to our external users and work from home users. In-country lockdown we configured the remote VPN for work from [home] user. Cisco AnyConnect is a very fast service and you will not get any downtime.

Performance

[Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] features like sandbox, URL filtering, advanced malware protection are very advanced and effective features for protecting your organization. In the world, [everyone] is facing ransomware attacks. [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] security can stop this attack. This is a really good feature provided by Cisco.

Support Rating

Cisco provides one of the best technical support services as compared to other vendors. They have very experienced [people] to help and provide solutions within the SLA. [They have] lots of technical study material available for help.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA is a good firewall but a lot of security features are missing so Cisco introduced [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services]. It provides advanced security for any type of cyber attack. [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] is also good [to] stop ransomware attacks.

Other Software Used

Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller, Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000)

Likelihood to Recommend

[Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] are best for small and middle-sized organizations who need security from multilayers attacks. We have a startup and previously we were using Cisco ASA with firepower. Lots of features were missing. Cisco ASA doesn't provide layer 7 security so we upgraded our firewall and purchased firepower services. [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] provides lots of advanced features like URL filtering, advanced malware protection, sandbox, etc. With the help of these features we can prevent [an] attack on any organization.

Next generation firewall Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services