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Data Sheet
Cisco PIX Security Appliance Software Version 6.3
The world-leading Cisco PIX
®
Security Appliance Series provides robust,
enterprise-class, integrated network security services, including stateful inspection
firewalling, protocol and application inspection, virtual private networking (VPN),
in-line intrusion protection, and rich multimedia and voice security—in
cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solutions. Ranging from compact, “plug-and-play”
desktop firewalls for small and home offices to carrier-class gigabit firewalls for the
most demanding enterprise and service-provider environments, Cisco PIX Security
Appliances provide robust security, performance, and reliability for network
environments of all sizes.
Advanced Firewall Technologies
Provide Enterprise-Class
Network Security
Cisco PIX Security Appliances deliver a
broad range of advanced firewall services
that protect enterprise networks from
threats lurking on the Internet and in
today’s network environments. The
state-of-the-art Cisco Adaptive Security
Algorithm (ASA) provides rich stateful
inspection firewall services, tracking the
state of all authorized network
communications and preventing
unauthorized network access. Cisco PIX
Security Appliances deliver an additional
layer of security through intelligent,
“application-aware” security services that
examine packet streams at Layers 4–7,
using inspection engines specialized for
many of today’s popular applications.
Administrators can also easily create
custom security policies for firewall traffic
by usingthe flexible access control methods
and the more than 100 predefined
applications, services, and protocols that
Cisco PIX Security Appliances provide.
Access to network resources can also be
strongly authenticated through the Cisco
PIX Security Appliance’s local user
database or through integration with
enterprise databases, either directly using
TACACS+/RADIUS or indirectly with
Cisco Secure Access Control Server
(ACS). Cisco PIX Security Appliances
provide extensive logging, URL filtering,
content filtering, and more, when
combined with Cisco AVVID (Architecture
for Voice, Video and Integrated Data)
partner solutions.
Market-Leading Voice-over-IP
Security Services Protect
Next-Generation Converged
Networks
Cisco PIX Security Appliances provide
market-leading protection for a wide range
of voice-over-IP (VoIP) standards and other
multimedia standards, including H.323
Version 4, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP),
Cisco Skinny Client Control Protocol
