What NGFW appliance would you use if your customer is a small business that requires multilayered protection and task automation?

Question

Options

• AFirePOWER 3100 series
• BASA 4100 series
• CASA 5500-X with FirePOWER
• DCisco 500 series ISR
• ECisco 4000 series NGIPS

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  5% (2)
• C
  84% (37)
• D
  2% (1)
• E
  7% (3)

Explanation

ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER is the right fit for small businesses because it combines Cisco's proven ASA stateful firewall with FirePOWER Services (NGIPS, AMP, URL filtering, AVC) on a single platform purpose-built for SMB scale - delivering multilayered protection and policy automation without enterprise-level cost or complexity.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. FirePOWER 3100 series - A high-throughput appliance targeting enterprise and data center environments, far beyond small business needs.
• B. ASA 4100 series - Enterprise/service-provider class hardware; oversized and cost-prohibitive for a small business.
• D. Cisco 500 series ISR - An Integrated Services Router, not an NGFW; lacks native multilayered security and task automation capabilities.
• E. Cisco 4000 series NGIPS - An intrusion prevention system only, not a full NGFW; missing firewall, AMP, and automation features.

Memory tip: Think "5500-X = SMB with eXtra layers" - the 5500-X is the classic SMB firewall, and the FirePOWER add-on gives it the "extra" multilayered intelligence. Any option with "4100," "3100," or "4000" is enterprise-grade and therefore too large for a small business scenario.

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