Top 5 Reasons to choose Cisco ASA 5500 Series Firewall

Author: Candice Cost

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series delivers superior real-time protection: Integrating innovative IPS with Global Correlation, firewall, and VPN technology, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series delivers highly effective intrusion prevention capabilities using hardware-accelerated IPS modules. And Cisco guaranteed coverage delivers peace of mind.

Site-to-site VPN: Using the hardware-accelerated site-to-site IPsec VPN capabilities provided by the Cisco ASA 5500 Series, businesses can securely augment or even replace legacy WANs by using low-cost Internet connections and IPsec VPN tunnels to connect to business partners and to remote and satellite offices worldwide.Secure mobility: The C isco A SA 5500 Series offers flexible technologies that deliver tailored solutions to suit connectivity and secure mobility requirements for company-managed assets such as desktops, laptops and smartphones, as well as unmanaged devices such as Internet kiosks or employee-owned desktops, laptops and handhelds. The C isco A SA 5500 Series delivers both clientless and SSL/DTLS/IPsec VPN secure mobility client options.Secure unified communications: The C isco A SA 5500 Series provides extensive protocol support, signaling and media inspection, remote office and mobile user support, and simple provisioning to enable a secure, integrated voice and data network.

Top 5 Reasons to Purchase Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances1.Advanced intrusion prevention services with guaranteed coverage With real-time reputation technology, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series IPS with Global Correlation is twice as effective as legacy IPS and includes guaranteed coverage for greater peace of mind. It protects against a wide range of threats, including worms, application-layer attacks, operating-system-level attacks, rootkits, spyware, peer-to-peer file sharing, and instant messaging for both IPv6 and IPv4 networks.

  1. Industry-leading content security services With the C isco A SA 5500 Series, customers have their choice of on-box threat protection and content control based on Trend Micro technology, or a proven off-box solution with the Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance. Both solutions provide comprehensive antivirus, antispyware, file blocking, ant spam, antiphishing, URL blocking and filtering, and content filtering services.
  2. Secure mobility The Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility solution provides business employees and partners with ubiquitous, highly secure access to enable employee mobility, enhance collaboration and improve productivity, while protecting the company’s resources and data from web-based threats and data leakage by enforcing acceptable use policies.
  3. Unified communications The C isco A SA 5500 Series delivers secure access by enabling protection for voice, video, and multimedia traffic. Businesses can securely take advantage of the improved productivity and lower operational costs of a Cisco Unified Communications solution.
  4. Comprehensive management and monitoring services Several elements round out a rich complement of management options: with Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM), a comprehensive CLI, verbose syslog, and support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Cisco Security Manager supports distributed deployments of up to 500 devices.

Note:As the popular smallest model in the new 5500 Cisco series of hardware appliances, Cisco Asa5505-bun-k9 firewall has attracted lots of attention.While Cisco Asa5505-sec-bun-k9 is upgraded with Security Plus License than ASA5505-BUN-K9.