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ASA Context Aware Security (CX) Vs URL filetering (websense)

sankoko29
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Fellas,

I'm new to ASA and PIX. I have PIX with websense for URL filtering. We are upgrading to ASA 5585-X wih CX context aware module. Will I still be needing Websense, since we have CX. What would be the best soultions? Thanks in Advance.

Happy New Year!

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AdamBlackNNT
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This is not a popular thing for a reseller like me to say, but I am not a fan of the CX module.  It does a little bit of a lot of things, but doesn't do particularly well at any of them; that is to say, it is not for example a replacement for a proper e-mail filter or web filter or IPS.

I would stick with Websense versus moving to the CX module.  I have had a lot of clients try - against my suggestion - to use just the CX module and every one of them has come back to their URL filtering boxes.  With that said, I might recommend trying IronPort instead - it may sound a bit biased coming from someone on the Cisco forums, but I really have found it to be a substantially suprerior platform for most (not all, but most) installations.