Cisco Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance Data Sheet

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Data Sheet

Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security
Appliances

Cisco

ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances deliver a robust suite of highly

integrated, market-leading security services for small and medium-sized businesses
(SMBs), enterprises, and service providers

—in addition to providing unprecedented

services flexibility, modular scalability, feature extensibility, and lower deployment and
operations costs.

Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances are purpose-built solutions that integrate world-class firewall,

unified communications security, VPN, intrusion prevention (IPS), and content security services in a unified

platform. The series builds upon proven technologies from Cisco PIX

500 Series Security Appliances, Cisco IPS

4200 Series Sensors, and Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators.

Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances are a key component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series provides intelligent threat defense that stops attacks before they penetrate the network

perimeter, controls network and application activity, and delivers secure remote access and site-to-site

connectivity. The result is a powerful multifunction network security appliance family that provides security breadth,

precision, and depth for protecting business networks of all sizes, while reducing the overall deployment and

operations costs associated with implementing comprehensive multilayer security.

Figure 1. Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series helps businesses increase effectiveness and efficiency in protecting their networks

and applications, while delivering exceptional investment protection through the following elements:

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Market-proven security capabilities

—The Cisco ASA 5500 Series integrates multiple full-featured, high-

performance security services, including application-aware firewall, SSL and IPsec VPN, IPS, antivirus,

antispam, antiphishing, and web filtering services. These technologies deliver strong network- and

application-layer security, user-based access control, worm mitigation, malware protection, improved

employee productivity, instant messaging and peer-to-peer control, and secure remote user and site

connectivity.