Cisco Cisco ISA550 Integrated Security Appliance Getting Started Guide

At-A-Glance

AN ALL-IN-ONE SECURITY AND INTERNET ACCESS SOLUTION TO SAFEGUARD YOUR SMALL BUSINESS

Product Description

Small and medium businesses need a simple, affordable, and

easy-to-deploy solution that provides Internet access in addition

to all the security needed to ensure that this Internet access

is safe and doesn’t disrupt business productivity. The Cisco®

Small Business ISA500 Series Integrated Security Appliance

is an all-in-one solution that meets these needs. It provides

security solution that combines highly secure Internet, wireless,

dual WAN, site-to-site, and remote access with a breadth of

unified threat management (UTM) capabilities. These capabilities

include firewall, email, web security, and application control to

provide the peace of mind small and medium businesses need

to have to know they are protected.

Primary Features

• Stateful, zone-based

firewall

•  IPS
•  Application control
•  Site-to-site VPN
•  Guest Internet access
•  Centralized and Cisco

OnPlus cloud-based

managementt

• Dual Gigabit Ethernet

WAN interfaces

• Web threat protection and

URL filtering

•  Spam filter
•  Gateway Anti-virus
•  Remote user VPN with Cisco

AnyConnect Client

•  WAN Redundancy
•  QoS
•  Up to 9 Gigabit Ethernet

LAN interfaces

• Cisco SIO threat protection

Competitive Information

Cisco stands apart from the competition in the small and

medium business networking market with its complete internet

access and security solution that includes switching, routing,

wired and wireless Internet access, and security—all of which

can be configured and managed through a single interface.

Cisco ISA500 primary competitive advantages compared to the

Fortinet Fortigate 20C/40C/60C and SonicWALL TZ Series are

shown in the competitive advantage summary.
Tables 1 through 3 offer summaries of the ISA500 Series

performance metrics, hardware specifications, and

management capabilities.

Primary Benefits

Comprehensive security that can minimize the risk of

business disruption
• Safeguards businesses from Internet attacks and threats with

stateful firewall, network reputation, and intrusion prevention

system (IPS)

• Web reputation empowers businesses and public institutions

to prevent and protect users from accessing dangerous

websites

• Gateway anti-virus detects and blocks the most widespread

and active malware

• Segregates traffic by business groups and applies different

security policies using zone-based firewall and multiple

policy profiles

• Offers guest Internet access while isolating them from

business networks

• Uses the 75 terabits of threat telemetry from 1.6 billion

devices per day from Cisco SIO to provide superior

global threat intelligence for network reputation filtering,

web reputation filtering, web URL category, and email

spam filtering

Safe increases in productivity
• Provides a range of Cisco VPN solutions including site-to-

site and remote user VPN using the Cisco AnyConnect™

client to help ensure sensitive business data is protected

when users work remotely

• Can act as a Cisco hardware VPN client for teleworker

deployment

• Cisco web filtering technology empowers businesses

and public institutions to prevent and protect users from

accessing improper websites and content

• Keeps non-business applications out of company networks

with application control

• Can safeguard against spam
• Can prioritize voice or selected business applications to

optimize business operations with quality of service (QoS)

• Provides WAN redundancy to keep businesses up and

running during unexpected Internet connectively failures

Ease of use and cost-effective in deployment
• Offers an affordable all-in-one solution
• Provides simplified configuration and navigation flows

Cisco ISA500 Competitive Advantage Summary vs. Fortinet Fortigate 20C/40C/60C and SonicWALL TZ Series

Comparison