Cisco PIX vs Cisco ASA Firewall
Comparison Table: Cisco PIX vs Cisco ASA
Below table describes the difference between Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA firewalls:
S No | Cisco PIX | Cisco ASA |
1 | Firewall appliance | Is firewall and anti-malware security appliance |
2 | Physical Appliance | Physical and Virtual Appliance |
3 | Provides Stateful packet filtering firewall. | Provides following feature support ·Firewall ·IPS ·Anti-X ·VPN |
4 | Use PIX Device Manager (PDM) for a graphical interface. | Use Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) for a graphical interface. |
5 | Does not support WebVPN | Supports WebVPN |
6 | Does not support Transparent Firewall, Security Context and Modular Policy | Supporting Transparent Firewall, Security Context and Modular Policy |
7 | 16 MB Ram | 64 MB |
8 | Runs PIX OS | Runs Security appliance Code 7.0 and later |
9 | Lower in performance and throughput | Higher performance and throughput |
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