Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services	Score7.3 out of 10	N/A	Cisco offers a threat-focused next-generation firewall (NGFW), the ASA 5500-X Series. The ASA 5500 Series platforms can run either the Cisco ASA Firewall or Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). The series features appliances in a variety of form factors, including standalone options for small and midsize businesses, ruggedized appliances for extreme environments, midsize appliances for security at the Internet edge, and high-performance appliances for enterprise data centers.	N/A

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Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

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Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
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Cisco ASA 5500-X pricing starts at ~$400 and scales up to $20,000 for higher capacity appliances.

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	Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services provides a robust product, and one of its advantages over other devices is Cisco's support. The devices have a long lifespan and rarely fail. They are easy to configure and manage, and do they do not require any additional licensing to … Incentivized Helpful? Vinayak Mishra Senior MS Security Engineer in Information Technology at NTT Ltd. (Information Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services The network is homogenous to Cisco and the integration with Cisco products is very easy (e.g. Identity Services Engine). As I am a certified engineer in Cisco Security, it feels very easy to handle Cisco products especially as more and more support docs are available across the … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Mckenzie teacher at Chisholm Institute (E-Learning, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Different types of devices altogether, so it is no use comparing them. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Sparks Network System Administrator in Information Technology at NCM Associates (Professional Training & Coaching, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services I like how everything is separated within the Cisco ASA vs the Meraki MX. The Meraki MX doesn't allow for specific network objects or ACLs to be manually created like the Cisco ASA does. The Cisco ASA is easier to configure new network routes to an existing network compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Shephered Moyo Systems Engineer in Information Technology at The M9 Group (Computer Networking, 11-50 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Palos are great but they are a bit more expensive. Cisco ASA 5500-Xs are very competitive budget-wise. Small to medium offices can easily afford Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirewPOWER services compared to Palo Altos. At the end of the day cisco even though more affordable still get … Incentivized Helpful? Simon Watkins Senior Network Architect in Corporate at Prosperity 24/7 (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services The Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services is a full-blown firewall whereas the security feature license on the ISR 1K router is a lot easy to configure. To be honest I'm not a great fan of Zone-based firewalls but I guess familiarity develops with how much you use a product. Incentivized Helpful? David Orellana IT Network Specialist in Information Technology at Wood's Homes (Non-profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Meraki MX is a much robust product, however in terms of licenses, Meraki MX you need to pay a per-year basic subscription that in 3 years surpass the value of the ASA 5500-X with features that you may not need. This is for a branch firewall not for the Main firewall. Incentivized Helpful? Vinay Mandora Sr Team Leader in Information Technology at Dish TV (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Richa Chahal Business Analyst in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services We were using Cisco ASA but security features were missing so we discussed with Cisco and upgraded with FirePOWER Services. We are using all the features like AMP, IPS, sandbox etc for network security. We have very critical client data so clients want the security for our … Incentivized Helpful? Himani Deol project manager in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services We were using Cisco ASA but lots of security features were missing so we decided to purchase the FirePOWER Services to protect our layer 7 attacks and good control on layer 3 to 4. With the help of firepower services, you can put more control on user traffic. Incentivized Helpful? Arpit Singh Project Lead in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Bhupesh Pant it head in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services We were using Cisco ASA in our organization but lots of security services were missing so we purchased the [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services]. It provides us application layer security and deep packet scan features for protecting our organization from any type of cyber … Incentivized Helpful? Anjali Nair project in Information Technology at DashClicks (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 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. Incentivized Helpful? Arjun Deol Project Manager in Information Technology at Boxinall (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services We were using Cisco ASA without firepower but after some cyber attacks I purchased the firepower services and this is really good. now my organization is protected from any type of cyber attack. Incentivized Helpful? sitaram gurjar System Administrator in Information Technology at MattsenKumar LLC (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services We were using pfSence but we were not happy with the service. They were not providing deep-level security so we purchased the Cisco ASA with FirePOWER and there are lots of advanced features are sandbox, malware protection, and URL filtering helps to increase the your network … Incentivized Helpful? Mohit Singh System Engineer in Information Technology at Flipkart India (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services We were using Cisco ASA before in our environment but when it comes to advance security features it doesn't have to provide that much reliability. After using Cisco ASA 5500-X with Firepower provides high-security features such as Sandboxing & Deep Scanning. It also provides … Incentivized Helpful? Binita Kharbanda Shift Supervisor in Information Technology at MattsenKumar LLC (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 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 … Incentivized Helpful? rahul Verma Network Consultant in Information Technology at Upwork (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Basant Gupta Executive System Admin in Information Technology at Freelancer (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Previous],] I was using the [pfSense] in my organization but when i switched to [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] I realized there are lots of issue and missing security features in [pfSense]. The deployment and configuration is very easy as compare to [pfSense]. I … Incentivized Helpful? Rajesh Singh CEO & MD in Corporate at Gurjartech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services I used pfSense open-source tool in which technical support and documentation is not available like Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services firewall. so I choose ASA just because this version of cisco ASA is really offering new advanced-level security in the normal budget for … Incentivized Helpful? Chandan Singh Rathore Senior Technical Consultant in Information Technology at iValue InfoSolutions Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Cisco has been industry for a long time and it's a trustworthy name. Cisco ASA 5500-X FirePOWER has the best Customer Support and robust hardware, user friendly configurations, [and] configuration documentations [are] available openly on internet. Cisco has also [been] named a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services The [Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services] does compete okay when compared to other devices. This model is begging to age and does not perform as well as the newer models but that is to be expected. I think their interface is okay but again I think ASDM is aging more … Incentivized Helpful? Zar Jerome Cajudo System Engineer in Customer Service at Trends & Technologies, Inc. (Retail, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services It has also good customer service and excellent TAC support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services Cisco technically has better support on things like VPN, but the Fortinet seems slightly cheaper. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Lachowsky Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at Minnesota Senate (Government Administration, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services I have some familiarity with other products in the firewall space, but I feel that Cisco offers the best ability to integrate all of our data sources together, being that the majority of the infrastructure is Cisco. That being said, Check Point, Fortinet, F5 and others offer … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Feature	Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services 9.0 30 Ratings
Identification Technologies	8.428 Ratings
Visualization Tools	9.324 Ratings
Content Inspection	8.429 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	10.028 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	10.029 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	9.830 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	7.629 Ratings
VPN	10.030 Ratings
High Availability	10.028 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	8.14 Ratings
Proxy Server	7.23 Ratings

User Ratings
	Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (30 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.7 (3 ratings)
Usability	7.2 (2 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.2 (26 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (29 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (1 ratings)