Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Reviews & Product Details

Cisco ASA Xseries is a next-generation firewall.in the next-generation firewall. we can easily manage and configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Expensive license prices like Anyconnect or Firepower licenses. otherwise no any dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We heavily use FirePower Services to gain realtime and retrospective verdicts of files traversing the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have a 5512-x, and it appears that many of the newer features needed more memory. Additionally, the Management console went through many changes during the time when Cisco bought Snort. Similar systems from other vendors, in terms of age and price, didn't have these issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Convenient management, if you spent a lot of money on Cisco Security Manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cisco ASA is an expensive, poorly scalable firewall. I have been working with him for over 5 years. Just because he is at the moosh of customers, and they can not get rid of him. Being able to make good routers and good firewalls are two different skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest plus for the Cisco ASA is the community of the installed base. Because there are so many in production, it is easy find answers the problems between the documentation and community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Cisco GUI for the ASA is the ASDM. While it is pretty good on it's own, it still relies on Java which is a royal pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple firewall that is easy to manage so long as you have a good understanding of Cisco CLI and ASDM. The newer versions i.e. 9.x have continued to add more features to the appliances as Cisco migrates to FirePower. We use our firewalls mainly for User traffic filtering and Remote Access VPN. It doesn't have the best UTM features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Weak UTM features and has to be used with a Firepower engine so as to function as a UTM

Has a very high maintenance cost for both support and subscription services.

Lacks internal log management capability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ASA it is really easy to use ... if you have the proper knowledge, otherwise you will suffer too much for any little thing and I mean ANY. The thing is if you are a Cisco admin and have used Fortinet products via CLI then you would find ASA a piece of cake but if you are a Checkpoint admin then you will need to learn new concepts.

Tallking about automation ASA it is the best of the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like i said if you dont have enough knowledge then ASA will be a pain in your heart and you need to have in mind that it has NO auto loggin system like Checkpoint does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Cisco ASDM makes it a breeze to manage this product and there are a lot of features that we don't fully utilize. When setting up your firewalls and troubleshooting, the packet tracer is one of the best tools. Also if you want to learn some of the command-line, turn on the preview commands in ASDM which allows you to see what is being sent to the device before it executes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The FirePower module always attempt to load when you sign-in even if you don't have it configured which is an annoyance. Although the ASDM makes it easy to setup certain things, the way it configures things is sometimes not optimal and you are better off configuring it through command-line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The company has a very good support, that would help the user during the installation process. The software also integrates well with various systems, and is extremely reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reporting functionality particularly for the VPN function, should somehow be improved so that one can be able to know when another user logs in or out of the network. Upgrading the software can be a little bit challenging at some point, and the price is a bit higher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its the cost effective and powerful firewall.

It’s been implemented at our branch which helps in packet filtering and traffic monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s no easy tool. Requires experience and training to handle. A team of IT is required to handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They are stable and reliable platform which we have been using for quite a few years. I'm very much happy with the software as it provides rigidity and has never given us a single issue. I use it with a data analyst who's quite expert in it and which has further more given us the opportunity to run and administrater it easily. Yet at times I'm able to queries myself if there's an update to be madr Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has some Java language dependency which make it quite tricky at times to use. And has some issues associated with it. Lastly UI can be much better. Rest application is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FirePower services -- specifically the effectiveness of the IPS and Web Content Filtering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dependency on ASA and SF modules, thus if you want to upgrade one, you may have to upgrade both which increases operational risk for downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The 5500x series really have been the work-horse of the internet edge. Providing security and features that are hard to match. They also offer quite a bit of flexibility on the internet edge or used as a data center security device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are quite a bit of security patches that are required to keep these devices secure. Seems like there is always a critical exploit that requires a software patch. It is also a good sign that the code is continually being updated though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ASDM interface is solidly made and feature-full. All commands can be made through the console interface or by command line.

The ASDM interface navigation is intuitive and uses logical separation of tabs and sections.

Documentation and support is top notch - if you ever get stuck, there is a ton of help available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ASA is not a next generation firewall and therefor is behind on newer features that are becoming commonplace. The ASAs are not compatible with modern VPN connections to Cloud services. The 5500-X series ASAs will be phased out soon if they don't update the architecture of them to become next-gen type devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the GUI interface and the multiple functionality of this firewall. I also like the failover functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The VPN setup can be a little daunting, but with a bit of help from TAC, it worked out fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Enterprise quality with huge options available for the users

The security is best in class, Real-time protection against DOS Applications, detection and filtering of network activities from different types of threats

The timely updates are awesome

Similarity with other CISCO products makes it easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Licensing is a huge complicated process and some hidden costs involved

No options available to rollback the configuration if an error occurs while implementing the new configuration

VPN not supported in context mode

When purchased with FirePOWER the Cisco ASA can be configured to inspect the application layer of the packets for better threat detection.

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Cisco support and ability to handle the bandwidth traffic we had was much better than the other products we tested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with most Cisco products price is always at a premium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User friendliness is a major component of this product's success. I really enjoy the interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think there are a few too many options in the toolbar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to connect to my server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were a few problems we ran into, but not enough to have any dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cisco has always been top of the line with what they come out with and this is no different. I highly recommend it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only thing I don’t like is the price of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Same commands, and same familiarity that you expect in a Cisco product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We ran into multiple bugs that really hurt our business, licensing, and lack of features as Cisco doesn't seem to innovate like they used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The inexpensive price for a great service that works great with having to spend a fortune on high performance firewall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I personally don’t have any dislikes with this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

delivers integrated threat defense for the entire attack continuum - before, during, and after an attack. c Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

if you don't install it correctly or use the recommended advice, your information can be compromised Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.