Feature
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Benefits
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Next-generation firewall
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Industry’s first threat-focused NGFW; provides ASA firewall functionality, advanced threat protection, and advanced breach detection and remediation combined in a single device
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Proven ASA firewall
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Rich routing, stateful firewall, Network Address Translation, and dynamic clustering for high-performance, highly secure, and reliable access with Cisco AnyConnect® VPN
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Market-leading NGIPS
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Superior threat prevention and mitigation for both known and unknown threats
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Advanced malware protection
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Detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and remediation to protect the enterprise against targeted and persistent malware attacks
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Full contextual awareness
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Policy enforcement based on complete visibility of users, mobile devices, client-side applications, communication between virtual machines, vulnerabilities, threats, and URLs
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Application control and URL filtering
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Application-layer control (over applications, geolocations, users, websites) and ability to enforce usage and tailor detection policies based on custom applications and URLs
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Enterprise-class management
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Dashboards and drill-down reports of discovered hosts, applications, threats, and indications of compromise for comprehensive visibility
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Streamlined operations automation
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Lower operating cost and administrative complexity with threat correlation, impact assessment, automated security policy tuning, and user identification
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Purpose-built, scalable
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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
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On-device management
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Simplifies advanced threat defense management for small and medium sized business with small scale deployments
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Remote Access VPN
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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
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Site-to-site VPN
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Protect traffic, including VoIP and client-server application data, across the distributed enterprise and branch offices
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Integrated wireless access
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Integrated Wi-Fi is available in the desktop form factor (ASA 5506W-X) for compact and simplified small office deployments
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Ruggedized form factor
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A ruggedized model (ASA 5506H-X), designed specifically for extreme environmental conditions, is available for critical infrastructure and control network applications
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Third-party technology ecosystem
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Open API that enables the third-party technology ecosystem to integrate with existing customer work streams
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Integration with Snort and OpenAppID
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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
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Collective Security intelligence (CSI)
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Unmatched security and web reputation intelligence provides real-time threat intelligence and security protection
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