Item: Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Rating: 10
Author: Vinay Mandora

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER is an advanced firewall designed to detect and prevent a cyber attack on your organization. It gives lots of advanced security features which are fully capable to stop malicious activity in your organization. We have used it for the last 3 years and we have configured the advanced IPS, sandbox, URL filtering, site-to-site VPN, remote VPN, etc.

Pros and Cons

Sandbox
URL filtering.
IPSEC site to site VPN.
SSL remote VPN.
Centralized dashboard.
Easy CLI commands.
Low cost.
Good customer support.
Advanced IPS.
Reporting
Easy to check logs.

Graphical user interface is little bit slow and sometimes it hangs during configuration.

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

Centralized management through GUI.
Easy configuration and management.
Low cost.

Performance

We have configured all the advanced security features like sandbox, advanced malware protection, IPS, and URL filtering. with the help of these features, we can get more visibility and more control in our network. We can check all incoming and outgoing traffic of our network.

Support Rating

Cisco is always good for customer support. it provides 24/7/365 customer support. They have highly experienced engineers who are available for help.

Alternatives Considered

pfSense

We were using the pfSense but lots of security features were missing and lots of bugs in the firewall. We had faced lots of issues with pfSense. The configuration is very difficult. Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is very easy to configure and manage firewall and the cost is very low and all the security features are available for help.

Other Software Used

Check Point 12000 Appliances, Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is a very advanced firewall and well suited for every size of the organization. Cisco provides all the advanced features at a very low cost and we can easily configure and manage this device. The customer support is really helpful and lots of documentation is available on the website to help.

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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services