Intrusion Prevention System

Security without Compromise

The Cisco ASA 5500-X Series helps organizations to balance security with productivity. It combines the industry's most deployed stateful inspection firewall with comprehensive, next-generation network security services, including:

• Visibility and granular control of applications and micro-applications, with behavior-based controls
• Robust web security
• Advanced threat protection with a comprehensive, highly effective intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Highly secure remote access
• Protection from botnets
• Proactive, near-real-time protection against Internet threats

Wide Range of Sizes and Form Factors

Protect networks of all sizes with Multi Scale performance and a wide range of form factors. Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls are available as:

• Scalable, standalone appliances for branch offices, midsize businesses securing the Internet edge, and enterprise data centers
• High-performance blades that integrate with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
• Virtual instances to provide enterprise-class security for private and public clouds
• Proven, Enterprise-Class Platform

All Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls are powered by Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, with enterprise-class stateful inspection and next-generation firewall capabilities.

ASA software also:

• Integrates with other essential network security technologies
• Supports Cisco Trust Sec security group tags (SGTs) and Identity-Based Firewall for enhanced user ID
• Awareness
• Enables up to eight ASA 5585-X appliances to be clustered, for up to 320 Gbps of firewall and 80 Gbps of
• IPS throughput
• Delivers high availability for high-resiliency applications

Cisco ASA-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls and Cisco Next-Generation Firewall Services are managed by a centralized management tool, Cisco Prime Security Manager.