- Cisco ASA is the world's most widely deployed, enterprise - class stateful firewall with remote access VPN and advanced clustering for highly secure, high - performance access and high availability to help ensure business continuity
- Granular Application Visibility and Control (AVC) supports more than 3,000 application - layer and risk - based controls that can invoke tailored intrusion prevention system (IPS) threat detection policies to optimize security effectiveness
- The industry - leading Cisco ASA with firepower next - generation IPS (NGIPS) provides highly effective threat prevention and full contextual awareness of users, infrastructure, applications, and content to detect multivector threats and automate defense response
- Reputation- and category - based URL filtering offers comprehensive alerting and control over suspect web traffic and enforces policies on hundreds of millions of URLs in more than 80 categories
- Advanced malware protection provides industry - leading breach detection effectiveness, a low TCO, and superior protection value that helps you discover, understand, and stop malware and emerging threats missed by other security layers
Meet the industry's first adaptive, threat - focused next - generation firewall (NGFW) designed for a era of threat and advanced malware protection. Cisco ASA with firepower services delivers integrated threat defense for the entire attack continuum - before, during, and after an attack - by combining the proven security capabilities of the Cisco ASA firewall with the industry - leading sourcefire threat and advanced malware protection features together in a single device. The solution uniquely extends the capabilities of the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next - Generation Firewalls beyond what today's NGFW solutions are capable of.