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Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) vs. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv)

by Cisco

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

by Palo Alto Networks

Overall rating4.34.5
Review count17171
Ease of use8.98.6
Ease of setup9.08.4
Quality of support9.28.5
Meets requirements9.09.1
NPS47.05882465.868263
Small Business29.4%18.3%
Mid-Market41.2%45.0%
Enterprise29.4%36.7%
Total page views154864
Total LLM citations307,427

Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv)

Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance is a virtualized network security solution based on the market-leading Cisco ASA 5500-X Series firewalls.

Pros

    Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

    Our next-generation firewall classifies all traffic, including encrypted traffic, based on application, application function, user and content. You can create comprehensive, precise security policies, resulting in safe enablement of applications. This lets only authorized users run sanctioned applications, greatly reducing the surgace area of cyber attacks across the organization.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Features
    • Threat Protection
    • Firewall Efficiency
    • Protection
    • Threat Detection