Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Support Reviews & Ratings 2024

Overview

What is Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software?

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software is the core OS for the ASA suite. It provides firewall functionality, as well as integration with context-specific Cisco security modules. It is scaled for enterprise-level traffic and connections.

Recent Reviews

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Review

10 out of 10

March 31, 2024

Incentivized

In my Datacenter as a border firewall

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Review

8 out of 10

March 24, 2024

Incentivized

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software is used to create and enforce security policies to control the traffic entering and …

Cisco ASA Firewall Review

9 out of 10

August 27, 2023

Incentivized

So we have shared usage of it and for us we really just implement rules and it to block allowed, deny whatever it is, traffic within our …

Adaptable yet Powerful Firewall Solution

9 out of 10

June 20, 2023

Incentivized

We have several Cisco ASA and FTD firewalls in use within our organization. The ASA name is the legacy platform for the now current FTD …

Great product, with lots of next generation features.

9 out of 10

June 02, 2023

Incentivized

Cisco ASA is [our] organization's firewall product, which is used as [a] firewall [and] to support remote VPN connectivity. It secures the …

Choosing Cisco ASA and ASAv for reliable, scalable, and secure VPN

10 out of 10

May 01, 2023

Incentivized

Our employee count was growing and we wanted to have a scalable, easy to administer and cost effective solution for a VPN concentrator. We …

Cisco ASA Review.

4 out of 10

August 05, 2022

Incentivized

We have used ASA to interconnect branch offices and also as a gateway. It's been a good product over the past years. Nowadays a lot of …

CiscoASA Firepower

8 out of 10

December 09, 2021

Incentivized

Our business uses ASA'a as firewalls and for routing. We route 2 incoming connections and route them to allow our customers to come in on …

ASA is a good product, migrating to Firepower

8 out of 10

December 02, 2021

Incentivized

We have been using Cisco ASA as a part of our company for many years. It is used for routing, [dating], site-to-site VPN, remote access to …

Cisco ASA the best firewall for any scenario

9 out of 10

November 26, 2021

Incentivized

We use Cisco ASAs in our Datacentre and we deploy these firewalls for our clients, with users mainly working from home, AnyConnect VPN …

"An incredibly simple-to-use, enterprise-class firewall and VPN solution"

9 out of 10

November 24, 2021

Incentivized

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a powerful software that provides routing, network, and virtual private network (VPN) services. …

Cisco ASA

7 out of 10

November 24, 2021

Incentivized

We use Cisco ASA as an internal firewall where we configure rules for internal communications and communications between servers also it's …

Tried and True, but Lacking Features

7 out of 10

September 23, 2021

Incentivized

We use several Cisco ASAs for our egress firewalls and VPN firewalls. We are slowly migrating away from these to Palo Altos, but for the …

Review on Cisco ASA Firewall

10 out of 10

September 23, 2021

Incentivized

Cisco ASA is one of the best security devices for routing, nat, and VPN. We are using this device for NAT and site-to-site VPN for secure …

Cisco ASA is top for a traditional firewall/VPN solution.

9 out of 10

September 12, 2021

Incentivized

Cisco ASA sits between our company and the Internet. With it, we keep out all the bad traffic that we don't want and allow the traffic …

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How Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Differs From Its Competitors

Resilience

Cisco ASA is great and trustable product when it comes to cybersecurity and I felt environment is more secure behind the ASA Firewall. It has stopped couple of attacks with tighter access lists. With great Network Address Translation support ASA has helped keeping internal enterprise network …

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Leadership in Resilience

More investment is needed when talking about cybersecurity, its not where we need to think about saving capex or opex. As this is very important today to secure the infrastructure, end users, remote users as attack surface is really widened, its not just one way entry, today enterprises are open …

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Resilience

Clearly, resilience differs from security. Resilience is about knowing something is going to come. That is the new paradigm in the security world, compared to the past which was about defending and making ure nothing happens. Over time, it became clear that watertight prevention is no longer a …

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Leadership in Resilience

The answer to this is defenelty AI has to play a bog role in this. If we need to achive a shorter resilience time then AI should play a major role.

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Awards

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Popular Features

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VPN (48)
9.2
92%
Active Directory and LDAP (47)
8.2
82%
Firewall Management Console (47)
8.0
80%
Reporting and Logging (48)
5.5
55%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Easy do configure
ACL with URL allowing Masking

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Government Relations Company, 1001-5000 employees

Intrusion Prevention System
User Interface and Management

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 11-50 employees

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Features

Firewall

A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out

Avg 8.5

7.3
Identification Technologies
(32) Ratings
Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content
6.8
Visualization Tools
(30) Ratings
Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.
8.1
Content Inspection
(32) Ratings
Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering
9
Policy-based Controls
(45) Ratings
Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall
8.2
Active Directory and LDAP
(47) Ratings
Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories
8
Firewall Management Console
(47) Ratings
Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management
5.5
Reporting and Logging
(48) Ratings
Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns
9.2
VPN
(48) Ratings
VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses
9.2
High Availability
(47) Ratings
Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working
8.8
Stateful Inspection
(46) Ratings
Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets
8
Proxy Server
(31) Ratings
A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

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Product Details

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What is Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software?

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software is the core operating software for Cisco’s ASA suite. It supports a variety of specialized network security and firewall options, allowing users to modularize to their business needs. It is scaled for enterprises through “clustering” ASAs, enabling 128 Gbps processing load and 50 million concurrent connections.

Cisco ASA provides a robust VPN setup process and integrates with other Cisco security offerings, including Cloud Web security and Trustsec. CWS provides cloud-based systems security across public and private clouds, and Trustsec is a software-defined segmentation product that mitigates the scope of network threats and data breaches. The platform also supports IPv4 and IPv6, enabling a smoother evolution in Internet Protocols for users.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Technical Details

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Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Reviewers rate VPN and High Availability highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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