Re: Thoughts on the new Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Chris Byrd wrote:

> to Cisco) by the end of the month.  I normally don't recommend going
> with anything that new, but for the about same price the ASA appears
> to have a much more robust feature set.

The more features, the greater the chances of having bugs.

> What are your thoughts on the new ASA from Cisco?  Would the
> additional features (IPS, AV, integrated VPN, active-active failover)
> be worth the risk of being on the cutting-edge?  Has anyone on the
> list worked with one yet?

The only time I'd ever deploy a new-to-the-market product was if I had
time to evaluate it personally.


Do the new features outweigh the risk of having an upset or worse yet-
unprotected client?  Only you *and* the client can answer that.  Their
risk tolerance is probably the biggest piece of input you can have.

Paul
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