Cisco Cisco ASA 5512-X Adaptive Security Appliance Release Notes

 lists the new features for ASA Version 8.2(5).

Smart Call-Home 
Anonymous Reporting

Customers can now help to improve the ASA platform by enabling Anonymous Reporting, which 
allows Cisco to securely receive minimal error and health information from the device.

We introduced the following commands: call-home reporting anonymous, call-home test 
reporting anonymous.

IF-MIB ifAlias OID 
support

The adaptive security appliance now supports the ifAlias OID. When you browse the IF-MIB, the 
ifAlias OID will be set to the value that has been set for the interface description.

Portal Access Rules

This enhancement allows customers to configure a global clientless SSL VPN access policy to 
permit or deny clientless SSL VPN sessions based on the data present in the HTTP header. If 
denied, an error code is returned to the clients. This denial is performed before user authentication 
and thus minimizes the use of processing resources.

We modified the following command: portal-access-rule.

Mobile Posture

(formerly referred to as 
AnyConnect 
Identification 
Extensions for Mobile 
Device Detection)

You can now configure the ASA to permit or deny VPN connections to mobile devices, enable or 
disable mobile device access on a per-group basis, and gather information about connected mobile 
devices based on the mobile device posture data. The following mobile platforms support this 
capability: AnyConnect for iPhone/iPad/iPod Versions 2.5.x and AnyConnect for Android Version 
2.4.x. You do not need to enable CSD to configure these attributes in ASDM.

Enforcing remote access controls and gathering posture data from mobile devices requires an 
AnyConnect Mobile license and either an AnyConnect Essentials or AnyConnect Premium license 
to be installed on the ASA. You receive the following functionality based on the license you install:

Enterprises that install the AnyConnect Premium license will be able to enforce DAP policies, 
on supported mobile devices, based on these DAP attributes and any other existing endpoint 
attributes. This includes allowing or denying remote access from a mobile device.

Enterprises that install the AnyConnect Essentials license will be able to do the following: 

Enable or disable mobile device access on a per-group basis and to configure that feature 
using ASDM.

Display information about connected mobile devices via CLI or ASDM without having the 
ability to enforce DAP policies or deny or allow remote access to those mobile devices.