Are there any differences in features between Cisco ASA hardware appliance and Cisco ASAv appliance

[IT Researcher]

We are planning to purchase a new Firewall solution for our Office network. The feature that we require from the firewall is as below:

• HTTPS decryption and logging
• IPS/IDS
• Gateway Antivirus
• URL filtering
• WAN load balancing and fault tolerance

Based on my Research I found that ASA virtual appliance does not have NGFW features mentioned above, but I could not confirm it.

Can anyone please help me with this query ?

[Rob Ingram]

@IT Researcher 

ASAv won't support those features.

If you want those fNGFW features then you'll want to use Firepower Threat Defense (aka Cisco Secure Firewall) software rather than ASA.