Cisco Cisco ASA 5555-X Adaptive Security Appliance - No Payload Encryption Hoja De Datos
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Extensible integrated services architecture
—The Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers businesses strong,
adaptive protection from the fast-evolving threat environment through its unique combination of hardware
and software extensibility and its powerful Modular Policy Framework (MPF). The innovative extensible
multiprocessor design and software architecture of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series enables businesses to easily
install additional high-performance security services through security services modules (SSMs) and security
services cards (SSCs). This provides businesses with outstanding investment protection, while enabling
them to expand the security services profile of their Cisco ASA 5500 Series, as their security and
performance needs grow. All these services are easily managed through the powerful Cisco Modular Policy
Framework, which allows businesses to create highly customized security policies while making it simple to
add new security and networking services into their existing policies.
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Reduced deployment and operations costs
—The Cisco ASA 5500 Series enables standardization on a
single platform to reduce the overall operational cost of security. A common environment for configuration
simplifies management and reduces training costs for staff, while the common hardware platform of the
series reduces sparing costs. Additional efficiencies are realized by deploying integrated capabilities,
obviating the need for the complex designs required to connect standalone solutions.
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Comprehensive management interfaces
—The graphical Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager
(ASDM), a comprehensive command line interface (CLI), verbose syslog, and Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) support round out a rich complement of management options. Multi-unit deployments
benefit greatly from Cisco Security Manager, a platform capable of managing distributed deployments of 5
to 5000 devices. The award-winning Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (Cisco
Security MARS) recognizes and correlates real network attacks and then rapidly defines how to stop them,
thereby decreasing administrative overhead by reducing false positives and simplifying audit compliance.
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series includes the Cisco ASA 5505, 5510, 5520, 5540, 5550, and 5580 Adaptive Security
Appliances
—purpose-built, high-performance security solutions that take advantage of Cisco’s expertise in
developing industry-leading, award-winning security and VPN solutions. Through the Cisco MPF, the Cisco ASA
5500 Series brings a new level of security and policy control to applications and networks. MPF enables highly
customizable, flow-specific security policies that have been tailored to application requirements. The performance
and extensibility of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series are enhanced through user-installable SSMs. This adaptable
architecture enables businesses to rapidly deploy security services when and where they are needed, such as
tailoring inspection techniques to specific application and user needs or adding additional intrusion prevention and
content security services such as those delivered by the Adaptive Inspection and Prevention (AIP) and Content
Security and Control (CSC) SSMs. Furthermore, the modular hardware architecture of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series,
along with the powerful MPF, provides the flexibility to meet future network and security requirements, extending
the outstanding investment protection provided by the Cisco ASA 5500 Series, and allowing businesses to adapt
their network defenses to new threats as they arise.