We use Cisco Secure Firewall for traditional firewall use cases, like VPN, segmenting of traffic, and creating PPSs.
Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Virtual - PAYG
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Does what we need to do and when we need to do it
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We need reliable communication to do what we do, and that's very important. The solution does what we need to do and when we need to do it. It has a great reputation for the support that we need because if things don't work within the Department of Defense, people don't survive. Communication and keeping the adversary out are key components of our work. So we need a robust, reliable, and secure product, and that's what Cisco provides us.
What is most valuable?
Cisco Secure Firewall is robust and reliable.
What needs improvement?
The process of procuring modern-day technology within the DOD needs to improve.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've spent quite a few years with Cisco Secure Firewall.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cisco Secure Firewall is a very stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Cisco Secure Firewall is a very scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
Cisco Secure Firewall's technical support is great, reliable, and responsive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment from using Cisco Secure Firewall. From the DOD's perspective, we need a reliable and robust solution that has to be reliable in real-time. Cisco Secure Firewall is a reliable solution that works when needed.
What other advice do I have?
Cisco Secure Firewall is a great scalable, secure, and robust product.
There is a dedicated team designed to handle firewalls.
I have a good impression of Cisco Talos and its effects on our security operations. They have a great reputation for doing a lot of great things.
Cisco Secure Firewall has helped our organization improve its cybersecurity resilience.
Overall, I rate Cisco Secure Firewall nine out of ten.
Maximizing Network security with Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance.
What do you like best about the product?
Cisco ASAV firewall software offers high availability features, such as clustering and active/standby failover, ensuring that the network remains secure even in the event of a hardware or software failure. Cisco ASAV firewall software offers advanced threat protection using technologies such as Intrusion Prevention systems (IPS), malware protection, and URL filtering. These are some features that I like in Cisco ASAv.
What do you dislike about the product?
It Consumes a significant amount of CPU and memory resources, which can impact the performance of the underlying virtualization infrastructure.ASAV firewall software offers a comprehensive solution for network security; it requires significant resources to deploy, configure, and manage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cisco ASAv solves a range of network security problems and provides several benefits, including enhanced security, simplified management, improved scalability, and compliance
Cisco Adaptative
What do you like best about the product?
The way we can connect and work from anywhere.
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe the interface could be more friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes people working together, even when you are km away.
Does what it's supposed to do
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and customer support is quick and efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not had any negative experiences with Cisco at this time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a large company with vast network connections, this has made navigating through systems must faster.
Best in industry security software with strong VPN competence
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about this software is that it is easy to Manage and track virtual traffic and deploy. The Application monitor all the internet traffic on the client's machine, which is very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The software automatically disconnects and reconnects when the internet is a little weak and after the update, which disrupts the work of other office tools, which work only when we are connected to a VPN network
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It prevents machines from unwanted malevolent programs or malware. Also, organizations can restrict access to employees from visiting unwanted websites to keep clients' devices safe.
We need help to upgrade to the version of the ASA OS that currently is on version 7.16 and an upgrade to version 9.14(2)8 is required
We request your important support to review the causistry of updating the VPN services found in AWS, we have 6 C5xlarge with images of Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Virtual - PAYG which we require to upgrade to the version of the ASA OS that currently is on version 7.16 and an upgrade to version 9.14(2)8 is required
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Provides great security for our applications
What is our primary use case?
We use them for site-to-site VPN solutions as well as other VPN activities, and for general application security.
We needed a good VPN solution and, as our network grew, we had more applications that were virtualized and that can be spun up. We needed a solution that would keep us ahead.
How has it helped my organization?
Cisco ASA provides great security for our applications.
What is most valuable?
One of the best features is the ease of use. It's also easy to teach new engineers to use the ASA CLI. When I first started learning firewalls, Cisco was the first one that was taught to me and it was pretty easy to grasp. When I'm teaching other engineers to use Cisco ASAs, the results of their learning are immediate.
What needs improvement?
It needs to provide the next-generation firewall features that other vendors provide, like data analytics, telemetry, and deep packet inspection.
Also, the ASAs need to be improved a little bit to keep up with the demand for high bandwidth and session count applications.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Cisco ASAs for about 11 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's reliable. It doesn't have all the features of some of the newer firewalls, but it's very reliable. It doesn't break. It's pretty rock-solid.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have at least a pair in every one of our data centers. We gateway our applications around the firewall system, meaning all application data goes through firewalls.
How are customer service and support?
We have good support from Cisco for the ASAs. That helps us out a lot. Some of our ASAs are pretty old and technically not supported anymore, but TAC always helps us out.
How was the initial setup?
The initial one, for me, was a little bit complex because I hadn't done it before. It was inline and an active/standby pair, so it involved a little bit more than just deploying one firewall.
We had some documentation written and we tested it in the lab and then the deployment took about four hours.
We deployed it alongside different solutions and then we cut over to it when it wouldn't impact the customers.
The maintenance involves doing code upgrades periodically to keep up with the security environment requirements. One person handles that.
What about the implementation team?
We deployed with a consultant from Cisco support. Our experience with them was good. They provided a lot of documentation ahead of time to help us with our configuration.
From our side there were two people involved. One was doing the configuration and the other person was checking to make sure there were no errors, looking at IPs and the like.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing is straightforward and simple, so we don't have to keep relicensing every year as we do with other applications.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We use Juniper as well.
CISCO ASAv review
What do you like best about the product?
A virtual firewall solution that supports all the recommended security features from traffic inspection to VPN and can be deployed on a private cloud or in the public cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
configuring some of the features using the command line can be challenging, and cisco ASDM sometimes can be difficult to use because it depends on the Java version being installed on your device
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed a virtual solution that can be deployed locally or in the cloud that can offer site-to-site and remote VPN connections
Cisco AnyConnect package is missing
We have subscribed "Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) - Standard Package" from AWS Marketplace and launched new machine but we are unable to retrieve the Cisco ASAv license so that we can contact Cisco. Basically we need "Cisco AnyConnect Package 2.5 or later".
When we try to log a case with cisco it asked for login but we have purchased this aws marketplace. We don't have any login id for cisco ASAv which we have taken from aws.
Someone please help.
Not available in your Geo Location
I'm in Canada and I can't use this? Seriously? This seems like a extremely short sighted decision to limit this subscription.
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