Cisco Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance Hoja De Datos
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Precise
Cisco IPS Software provides precise prevention and analysis, to help you confidently protect your
assets in today’s threat environment.
With the richest set of response actions available in an intrusion prevention system, Cisco IPS
Software can prevent malicious activity in accordance with your policy, and in the manner most
effective for each threat. Cisco IPS Software prevention options include dropping or modifying
packets and flows, denying attackers, terminating sessions, and rate limiting. These capabilities
can be performed directly by a Cisco IPS device, or can be provided through integration with other
network technologies.
Cisco IPS Software also provides precise, in-depth threat analysis. An adaptive multidimensional
algorithm combines attack details with live network knowledge to produce a calibrated risk
measurement for each event. That risk measurement is the key to effective threat prevention. The
default recommended prevention policy automatically takes the correct prevention action based on
the risk rating of each threat, but you can also adjust your threat tolerance, assuming a more
aggressive or permissive threat posture to meet your policy needs.
Not all threats behave the same way. Some are small and targeted, some spread from host to
host, and some are networkwide. Cisco IPS Software allows you to stop all of the different types of
threats where they originate, with the prevention approach that works best.
Flexible
Cisco IPS Software is extremely flexible, enabling you to deploy, update, and manage your
intrusion prevention strategy to meet the needs of your business without introducing new risk and
change management costs.
Cisco IPS Software is available in the widest variety of deployment options of any IPS technology.
Whether you’re looking to deploy dedicated appliances or integrate IPS capabilities into your
access control, routing, or switching technologies, the same full-featured Cisco IPS Software can
be implemented throughout your network. This enables you to deploy IPS capabilities anywhere
your traffic flows, as opposed to having to redesign and redirect your traffic to dedicated “choke
points.”
Cisco IPS Software features a modular design with full-system update capabilities, so you can
update any facet of your software—maximizing your investment, while minimizing the impact to
your business. Whether it’s new signatures, new inspection capabilities, new management
features, or new performance improvements, this modular design greatly decreases the
operational cost of ongoing enhancements to your security posture.
Cisco IPS technologies, and a customizable dashboard for monitoring security events and sensor
health. If you’re looking for a comprehensive, unified solution across security technologies, the
Cisco Security Management Suite is a management framework designed for scalable policy
administration and enforcement for the Cisco Self-Defending Network. This integrated solution can
simplify and automate the tasks associated with security management operations across security
technologies, including configuration, monitoring, analysis, and response.
In a broad and rapidly changing threat environment, Cisco IPS Software provides you with the
design and management flexibility to tailor your security posture to your needs.
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