Cisco ASA 5500 Series

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 series deliver a suite of security services for small, medium sized businesses and Enterprise. The Cisco ASA builds on the proven capabilities of the Cisco PIX security appliances and provides a combination of firewall, VPN functions, and optional content modules for complete protection of your business.

Security Challenges

The ASA addresses security challenges to the modern network and protects your business from threats including;

• Unauthorised network access by tightly controlling access from different user communities to application resources.

• Service availability and downtime by providing denial of service attack protection and high availability features.

• Loss of employee productivity through unauthorised peer-to-peer file sharing or from the effects or viruses and malware.

• Threats to unified communications services such as ensuring VoIP protocols such as SIP, SCCP, H.323 and MGCP conform to standards.

Cisco ASA 5500 Models

The ASA 5500 series is available in a number of different appliances to support the requirements of your business. Appliances scale in throughput and the maximum of supported connections.

Cisco ASA Models

Content Security Edition

The Cisco ASA CSC-SSM (Content Security and Content Security Services Module) enhances the base ASA appliance with protection from viruses, malware, spyware, spam and phishing. The CSC-SSM module also provides URL filtering capabilities to control Internet resources. The CSC-CSSM module is available with new Cisco ASA hardware as part of the content security bundle or as a standalone card to upgrade existing Cisco ASA appliances.

Intrusion Prevention System Edition

The Cisco ASA (AIP-SSM) Advanced Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module and Security Services Card (AIP-SSC) provides a full set of intrusion prevention services (IPS) to prevent malicious traffic from entering your network. The AIP-SSM module is available with new Cisco ASA hardware as part of the content security bundle or as a standalone card to upgrade existing Cisco ASA appliances.

SSL / IPsec Edition

The Cisco ASA 5500 SSL / IPsec Edition enabled your organisation to leverage both SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and IPsec (IP Security) VPN services. These technologies provide remote connectivity between company offices, partners and remote/home workers. A wide range of connectivity options are supported from portal based client, and clientless access, to standard VPN client or CLI initiated modes. Security features ensure that threats from VPN connections is sufficiently mitigated.

For more information on the Cisco ASA 5500 solutions, please contact our sales team on 0845 643 5586 or click here to contact us via email.

  • "add