Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

Cisco ASA is an excelent solution for protecting your network and allowing traffic from internet to your internal services. The performance is very good, you can administrate the device via CLI and via GUI (ASDM), the deploy via ASDM can take a little longer than CLI but is simplier. We have used Cisco ASA for publishing service to internet and as a gateway to the internet for the internal traffic.

• Allow the remote work with the VPN Remote access
• Not much maintanence needed (Robust devices)
• Secure connections from internet to apps and services published

Cisco Firepower 4100 Series, Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention

Microsoft 365, Cisco Umbrella, Fortinet FortiGate

We are using Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software for connecting to our office network when not in office premises. Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software has great CLI and GUI software options for managing, configuring the device. We normally use CLI to change or create configuration. We are very satisfied with the ease of software in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Firewall.

• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software software is easy to use.
• Once the setup is done, no changes are required and OS has not got corrupted till now.

Our employee count was growing and we wanted to have a scalable, easy to administer and cost effective solution for a VPN concentrator. We wanted to support concurrent connections that was 2x our employee count. We chose Cisco's ASA as our VPN concentrator and that allowed us to scale with low administrative cost and a reasonable license/tooling cost. We also wanted to support 4 different entities, which ASA was able to help us achieve.

• Positive: ASA and ASAv allowed us to transition from on-prem to the cloud very easily
• Negative: ASAv's logging is not great. I can't tell which user logged on with which device. To get better logging, we'll need to add identity services to the ASA
• Positive: Our cost of operation went down with the ASAv
• Positive: We added a lot more staff and they were all able to enjoy the benefits of VPN, especially now that telecommuting is common

Fortinet FortiGate and SonicWall VPN Clients

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a powerful software that provides routing, network, and virtual private network (VPN) services. Our organization has implemented it, and our clients have IPSec site-to-site VPN. We use VPN tunnels between locations and use Cisco AnyConnect for VPN connections. For preventing unauthorized access to our managed networks, Cisco ASA devices excel. There are many options in Nat to customize it to our needs. Because it helps us categorize traffic and find problems, we're using it in all departments. ASA is a security device that combines firewall, NAT, intrusion prevention, and virtual private network functionality. It is the best for a firewall, router, and VPN device.

• For our company, Cisco's ASA and VPN capabilities were critical to its survival during the pandemic, and without them, we would not have been able to keep up.
• An excellent Web Console GUI and easy-to-follow documentation make it simple to set up and use. In the DMZ, we can quickly set up port forwarding or use a public IP.
• For troubleshooting an issue, I find Packet Tracer or Packet Capture very helpful. With Cisco's excellent support, problems are resolved more quickly, which has a positive effect.

Checkpoint Halo, Sophos UTM, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series and Juniper SRX

Cisco Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX, Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

• Best in class Technical Support
• Easy to configure & Web Console GUI is good
• Easy documentation
• Cost effective

pfSense

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series