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FLEXIBLE VPN SERVICES ECONOMICALLY EXTEND NETWORKS TO REMOTE OFFICES AND MOBILE USERS

Businesses can securely extend their networks across low-cost Internet connections to mobile users, business partners, and remote offices worldwide using the full-featured VPN capabilities provided by the Cisco PIX 515E Security Appliance. Solutions supported range from standards-based site-to-site VPN using the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) and IP Security (IPSec) VPN standards, to the innovative Cisco Easy VPN capabilities found in Cisco PIX Security Appliances and other Cisco security solutions-such as Cisco IOS® routers and Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators. Cisco Easy VPN delivers a uniquely scalable, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage remote-access VPN architecture that eliminates the typical operational costs associated with maintaining remote-device configurations.

Robust Stateful Inspection and Application Layer Security

Cisco PIX Security Appliances integrate a broad range of advanced firewall services to protect businesses from the constant barrage of threats on the Internet and in many business network environments. As a secure foundation, Cisco PIX Security Appliances provide rich stateful inspection firewall services, tracking the state of all network communications and preventing unauthorized network access. Building upon those services, Cisco PIX Security Appliances deliver strong application layer security through 30 intelligent, application-aware inspection engines that examine network flows at Layers 4-7. To defend networks from application layer attacks and to give businesses more control over applications and protocols used in their environment, these inspection engines incorporate extensive application and protocol knowledge and employ security enforcement technologies that include protocol anomaly detection, application and protocol state tracking, Network Address Translation (NAT) services, and attack detection
and mitigation techniques such as application/protocol command filtering, content verification, and URL deobfuscation. These inspection engines also give businesses control over instant messaging, peer-to-peer file sharing, and tunneling applications, enabling businesses to enforce usage policies and protect network bandwidth for legitimate business applications.

AWARD-WINNING RESILIENT ARCHITECTURE PROVIDES MAXIMUM BUSINESS UPTIME

Select models of Cisco PIX 535 Security Appliances provide award-winning stateful failover services that ensure resilient network protection for enterprise network environments. Businesses can deploy Cisco PIX Security Appliances using either an Active/Standby failover design or a more advanced Active/Active failover design, which supports complex network environments that require asymmetric routing support. Failover pairs continuously synchronize their connection state and device configuration data, thus providing an easy-to-manage high availability solution. Synchronization can optionally take place over a high-speed LAN connection, providing another layer of protection by enabling businesses to geographically separate the failover pair. In the event of a system or network failure, network sessions are automatically transitioned between appliances, with complete transparency to users.

Announcing the Cisco PIX ASA Appliances

A New Breed of Network Protection   The Cisco® ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance is a high-performance, multifunction security appliance family delivering converged firewall, IPS, network anti-virus and VPN services. As a key component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network, it provides proactive threat mitigation that stops attacks before they spread through the network, controls network activity and application traffic, and delivers flexible VPN connectivity while remaining cost-effective and easy-to-manage. In a single platform, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers: Market-proven firewall, IPS, network anti-virus, and VPN capabilities. Adaptive identification and mitigation services architecture providing granular policy control and future services extensibility. Reduced deployment, operating costs, and complexity.

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