Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances – a single solution for robust integrated security services for SMB (Small and Medium-sized Businesses) and enterprises as well as services providers that combine proven technologies from Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliances, Cisco IPS 4200 Series, and Cisco VPN 3000 Series concentrator.
The most challenging works in maintaining and running the small to medium business or corporate network is protecting the information assets against any types of security threats – both the threats that come from the insider and the threats that come from the outsider (the Internet – un-trusted network) to keep the business continuity run. The objective of this challenging works is which is known as CIA triad: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of the business resources. Cisco ASA 5500 Series comes to help achieve this goal.
What this Cisco ASA 5500 does
Cisco ASA 5500 series is adaptive security appliances, purpose-built solutions which integrate the world-class secured firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), unified communications security, Intrusion Detection System or intrusion prevention (IPS), and content security services in a unified platform. Cisco ASA 5500 series provide services flexibility, modular scalability, feature extensibility, and lower deployment and operations costs.
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As a key component of Cisco Self-Defending Network, Cisco ASA 5500 series is a powerful multifunction network security appliance family that provides intelligent threat defense that stops attacks before they penetrate the network perimeter, controls network and application activity, and delivers secure remote access and site-to-site connectivity. Deploying Cisco ASA 5500 series within the SMB and corporate network will reduce the overall deployment and operations costs associated with implementing comprehensive multilayer security.
Cisco ASA 5500 series deliver exceptional investment protection that help businesses increase effectiveness and efficiency in networks / applications protections through the following elements:
- Cisco ASA 5500 series is market-proven security capabilities that integrates multiple full-featured, high-performance security services, including application-aware firewall, SSL and IPsec VPN, IPS, antivirus, antispam, antiphishing, and web filtering services.
- Cisco ASA 5500 series is an extensible integrated services architecture that combines innovative extensible multiprocessor hardware design and software and its powerful Modular Policy Framework (MPF).
- With Cisco ASA 5500 series as a single platform standard, reduces the overall management, deployment, and operational cost of security.
- For comprehensive management purposes, Cisco ASA 5500 series supports ASDM (The graphical Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager), a comprehensive CLI (command line interface), verbose syslog, and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). Cisco Security Manager would be great if you deploy multi-unit Cisco devices.
You can download a complete PDF datasheet file about this Cisco ASA 5500 series here.
Together with the enforcement of the information security policies, deployment of this Cisco ASA 5500 series into the businesses / corporate networks will help protecting the overall security of the information assets.
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