- Industry's first threat-focused NGFW; provides ASA firewall functionality, advanced threat protection, and advanced breach detection and remediation combined in a single device
- Rich routing, stateful firewall, Network Address Translation, and dynamic clustering for high-performance, highly secure, and reliable access with Cisco AnyConnect VPN
- Superior threat prevention and mitigation for both known and unknown threats
- Detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and remediation to protect the enterprise against targeted and persistent malware attacks
- Policy enforcement based on complete visibility of users, mobile devices, client-side applications, communication between virtual machines, vulnerabilities, threats, and URLs
- Application-layer control (over applications, geolocations, users, websites) and ability to enforce usage and tailor detection policies based on custom applications and URLs
- Dashboards and drill-down reports of discovered hosts, applications, threats, and indications of compromise for comprehensive visibility
- Lower operating cost and administrative complexity with threat correlation, impact assessment, automated security policy tuning, and user identification
- Highly scalable security appliance architecture that performs at up to multigigabit speeds
- Simplifies advanced threat defense management for small and medium sized business with small scale deployments
- Extends secure corporate network access beyond corporate laptops to personal mobile devices, regardless of physical location
- Protect traffic, including VoIP and client-server application data, across the distributed enterprise and branch offices
- Integrated Wi-Fi is available in the desktop form factor for compact and simplified small office deployments
- Open API that enables the third-party technology ecosystem to integrate with existing customer work streams
- Open source security integration with Snort and OpenAppID for access to community resources and ability to easily customize security to address new and specific threats and applications quickly
- Unmatched security and web reputation intelligence provides real-time threat intelligence and security protection
Meet the industry's first adaptive, threat-focused next-generation firewall (NGFW) designed for a new 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. How? By combining the proven security capabilities of the Cisco ASA firewall with the industry-leading Sourcefire threat and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) 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. Whether you need protection for a small or midsized business, a distributed enterprise, or a single data center, Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services provides the needed scale and context in a NGFW solution.