White Paper Abstract:
This white paper summarizes that Cisco Systems engaged Miercom to independently test the Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance against several Cother comparable, competitive Unified Threat Management (UTM) security appliances – the Check Point® VPN-1® Pro, the Fortinet® FortiGate 1000, and Juniper Networks® Net Screen-208. Performance areas examined included: unified firewall and IPS throughput performance, VPN throughput performance, IPS threat prevention capability; and connections-per-second performance.