Product features
Next-generation firewall
Industry's first threat-focused NGFW provides ASA firewall functionality, advanced threat protection, and advanced breach detection and remediation combined in a single device.
Proven ASA firewall
It has a rich routing, stateful firewall, Network Address Translation, and dynamic clustering for high-performance, highly secure and reliable access with Cisco AnyConnect VPN.
Market-leading NGIPS
It has a superior threat prevention and mitigation for both known and unknown threats.
Advanced malware protection
Detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and remediation protect the enterprise against targeted and persistent malware attacks.
Full contextual awareness
Policy enforcement is based on complete visibility of users, mobile devices, client-side applications, communication between virtual machines, vulnerabilities, threats, and URLs.
Application control and URL filtering
Application-layer control (over applications, geolocations, users, websites) and ability to enforce usage and tailor detection policies is based on custom applications and URLs.
Enterprise-class management
It has dashboards and drill-down reports of discovered hosts, applications, threats, and indications of compromise for comprehensive visibility.
Streamlined operations automation
It provides lower operating cost and administrative complexity with threat correlation, impact assessment, automated security policy tuning, and user identification.
Purpose-built, scalable
This is a highly scalable security appliance architecture that performs at up to multigigabit speeds (consistent and robust security across small office, branch offices, Internet edge, and data centers in either physical and virtual environments).
On-device management
It simplifies advanced threat defense management for small and medium sized business with small scale deployments.
Remote Access VPN
It extends secure corporate network access beyond corporate laptops to personal mobile devices, regardless of physical location; support for Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution, with granular, application-level VPN capability, as well as native Apple iOS and Android VPN clients.
Site-to-site VPN
Protect traffic, including VoIP and client-server application data, across the distributed enterprise and branch offices.
Integrated wireless access
Integrated Wi-Fi is available in the desktop form factor (ASA 5506W-X) for compact and simplified small office deployments.
Ruggedized form factor
A ruggedized model (ASA 5506H-X), designed specifically for extreme environmental conditions, is available for critical infrastructure and control network applications.
Third-party technology ecosystem
Open API enables the third-party technology ecosystem to integrate with existing customer work streams.
Integration with Snort and OpenAppID
Open source security integration with Snort and OpenAppID gives access to community resources and ability to easily customize security to address new and specific threats and applications quickly.
Collective Security intelligence (CSI)
Unmatched security and web reputation intelligence provides real-time threat intelligence and security protection.
Key selling points
- Next-generation firewall
- Proven ASA firewall
- Market-leading NGIPS
- Advanced malware protection
- Full contextual awareness
- Application control and URL filtering
- Enterprise-class management
- Streamlined operations automation
- Purpose-built, scalable
- On-device management
- Remote Access VPN
- Site-to-site VPN
- Integrated wireless access
- Ruggedized form factor
- Third-party technology ecosystem
- Integration with Snort and OpenAppID
- Collective Security intelligence (CSI)
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