Understanding ASA

Posted on Monday, April 19, 2010
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Understanding ASA5520

Cisco ASA5520 series in a single platform to provide a variety of market, a powerful combination of proven technology, which from an operational point of view and economic point of view, can be deployed to more locations and comprehensive security services. It is a multi-functional security appliance, so as to achieve both a strong security protection, and also avoid running multiple devices in multiple locations of high operating costs, and thus do not have to carry out between the two difficult, high-risk trade-off.

Cisco ASA5520 series for small and medium businesses (SMB), large enterprises and telecommunications carriers to provide the specific needs of customized product packages. ASA 5500 This can be through the ASA 5500 Series platform standardization, thereby reducing management, training and spare parts costs. That it could provide a suitable location in the network of services in order to achieve good protection. In addition, it provides a pre-packaged security solutions for specific locations, so as to simplify the design and deployment.

These pre-packaged solutions There are four types: Cisco ASA 5500 Series firewalls, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN bundles.

Key Features

  • Mature security and VPN performance – full-featured, high-performance firewall, IPS, Anti-X, as well as IPSec and SSL VPN technologies to provide a robust application security, based on user and application access control, worm and virus defense, malicious software defense, anti-phishing and anti-spam, URL blocking and filtering, and remote user / site connectivity
  • Expanding the adaptive identification and prevention services to architecture – AIM uses a modular services processing and policy framework can be based on a case-flow to provide specific security or network services to support highly accurate strategies to control and Anti-x protection, and simplify the flow of processing
  • No  need to change platforms or lower performance, that is able to upgrade existing services and deployment of new services
  • Support for highly customizable security policies and services, helping to protect against fast-evolving threat environment
  • To reduce deployment and operational costs – multifunction devices allows users to configure and manage to achieve standardization, thereby reducing the deployment and ongoing operational costs

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