This series enables standardization on a single platform to reduce the overall operational cost of security.

This Series offers businesses strong, adaptive protection from the fast-evolving threat environment through its unique combination of hardware and software extensibility and its powerful Modular Policy Framework (MPF).

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series 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.

This Series deliver a robust suite of highly integrated, market-leading security services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprises, and service providers. For more info please refer to Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances Data Sheet This article is a summary from of the website. So in this post we will discuss the 5500 series. The ASA 5500 series has the following models: Of course, there are all these capabilities in ASA Gen2 models (Cisco ASA 5500 series) and older models (Legacy ASA) may have not all these features. In fact, Cisco ASA is a security device that combines firewall, antivirus, antispam, IDS/IPS engine, IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, anti-phishing, and web filtering, and content inspection capabilities.

The ASA in Cisco ASA stands for Adaptive Security Appliance. We suggest that you read the following two posts before continuing to read this post: It aggregates available information from datasheets published by Cisco.

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