topic Re: Difference between CISCO Ironport Web Security and Meraki Firewall in Endpoint Security

Difference between CISCO Ironport Web Security and Meraki Firewall?

cytaindah — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 01:05:01 GMT

Hi, can anyone tell me the difference between the two devices?

I have both and would like to know if I can use both on our organizational network?

Regards,

CTY

Re: Difference between CISCO Ironport Web Security and Meraki Firewall

Kasun Bandara — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 02:49:20 GMT

you can use both for 2 different requirements.

1. Ironport (now ESA) is mainly using for secure email transactions in network

2. Meraki MX firewalls are using to network security using UTM/NGFW protection

Re: Difference between CISCO Ironport Web Security and Meraki Firewall

cytaindah — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:12:06 GMT

@Kasun Bandara I also have an Email Security Appliance (ESA - C170) with the Web Security Appliance (WSA - S170) which both are still not used. I have been using the Meraki MX250 Firewall device for a while.

Thanks,

CTY

Re: Difference between CISCO Ironport Web Security and Meraki Firewall

Kasun Bandara — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:44:20 GMT

you can utilize ESA as a email transfer agent and WSA as a web proxy. both devices have own unique features. MX is like combination of them using subset of their features. like you can do web/application filtering in MX as well as in WSA. but MX is not configuring as a proxy server. its doing the filtering part when traffic moving through it.