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The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance (Figure 6-1) is the newest member in the group of Cisco Firewall technology products. The ASA 5500 series includes multifunction Security Appliances delivering converged firewall, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), advanced adaptive threat defense services including Anti-X defenses, application security, and VPN services simplifying network security solutions.
The ASA 5500 Series is one of the key components in the Cisco Self-Defending Network initiative. At the heart of the ASA 5500 Series design is the Adaptive Identification and Mitigation (AIM) architecture that provides proactive threat mitigation, thereby stopping attacks before they spread through the network, network activity controls, and application traffic. The AIM architecture delivers flexible, high-performance site-to-site VPN, remote access VPN, and SSL VPN solutions.
In a single platform, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers the following:
Market-proven firewall, IPS, adaptive threat defense, and VPN capabilities
Adaptive identification and mitigation services architecture, thereby delivering granular policy control and future services extensibility
Saving overall deployment and operational costs and reduced complexity
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series is an innovative appliance that builds on the depth and breadth of security features, combining the following three industry-leading security and VPN technologies:
Blending these multiple functions, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series delivers an unmatched best-of-breed in network protection solutions. The Cisco ASA 5500 Series brings together a wide range of security and VPN technologies to provide rich application security, Anti-X defenses, network containment and control, and secure connectivity tightening the network security posture.
Cisco ASA 5500 Series offer five high-performance purpose-built appliances that span small- and medium-sized to large enterprise and service provider environments. Concurrent security services architecture lowers operational complexity and reduces the overall deployment and operation costs.
ASA 5505: Cost-effective, easy-to-deploy appliance for small business, branch office, and enterprise teleworkers environments with integrated 8 port 10/100 Fast Ethernet switch (includes two Power over Ethernet [PoE] ports)
ASA 5510: Cost-effective, easy-to-deploy appliance for medium-sized business, remote/branch, and enterprise environments with advanced security and networking services
ASA 5520: High-availability Active/Active services and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity appliance for medium-sized enterprise networks, in a modular, high-performance network
ASA 5540: High-density, with Active/Active high-availability services and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with greater reliability, high-performance appliance for medium-to-large enterprises and service-provider networks
ASA 5550: Gigabit-class offering up to 1.2 Gbps firewall throughput, with Active/Active high-availability services, and Fiber and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity; high-performance appliance for large enterprise and service-provider networks
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