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.