Cisco unveils integrated security appliance family

✍ Scribed by Brian McKenna

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1742-6847
• DOI: 10.1016/s1742-6847(05)70267-6

✦ Synopsis

C isco has launched a fami- ly of multi-function security appliances that integrates VPN, firewalling, and intrusion prevention technologies.

The supplier's ASA 5500 series controls network and application traffic, delivers VPN connectivity, and reduces, it says, the overall deployment, operations costs and complexity that would otherwise be associated with this level of comprehensive security.

The family is being badged as part of the company's 'Adaptive Threat Defense' phase of the Cisco 'Self-Defending Network' (SDN) security strategy.