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Cisco asa 5505 end of life1/13/2023 Currently legacy ASA Firewalls only run to version 9.1 updates. Effectively your device is vulnerable and unsecured whilst it awaits the next patch update. Meaning they are a ticking bomb and without support any network can suffer significant downtime when the device gives up.ĪSA updates are uncommon, occurring every 6 months or so, meaning security holes can appear with such a time gap between security patch updates. When legacy ASA’s are out of support it is not possible to renew support contracts as Firmware updates are no longer available, effectively making the devices EOL. These older model ASA’s have the following problemsĬisco ASA Firewalls have a Meantime-Between-Failure (MTBF) which is simply the predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of such devices. There are still a vast number of ASA’s in the public realm used as a security device/internet edge firewalls where many companies think they are providing the necessary security, the reality cannot be further from the truth. The traditional legacy ASA Firewalls (5505, 5510, 5520, 5540, 5580) are End of Life (EOL) and soon will be End of Support (EOS).
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