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Feature 

 

Benefit

 

(NIS+) Security Services

 

3G Mobile Wireless 
Security Services

 

 

Delivers rich security services for 3G Mobile Wireless environments that provide packet switched data services 
using the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol standard (GTP) 

 

Provides advanced GTP inspection services that enable Mobile Wireless providers to have secure interactions 
with roaming partners through robust filtering capabilities based on GTP specific parameters, such as International 
Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) prefixes and access point name (APN) values, and more

 

 

This feature is licensed separately. 

H.323 Security Services

 

 

Enables advanced H.323 inspection services that support versions 1–4 of the protocol along with Direct Call 
Signaling (DCS) and Gatekeeper Router Control Signaling (GKRCS) to provide flexible security integration in 
a

 

variety of H.323-driven voice-over-IP (VoIP) environments 

 

Includes NAT and PAT support for H.323 services, including advanced features such as fax over IP (FoIP) using 
the T.38 protocol, an ITU standard that defines how to transmit FoIP in real time

 

SIP Security Services

 

 

Delivers a fortified SIP inspection engine that secures both, UDP and TCP based SIP environments 

 

Enables NAT- and PAT-based address translation support for SIP-based IP phones and applications such as 
Microsoft Windows Messenger, while delivering advanced services such as call forwarding, call transfers, and 
more

 

SCCP Security Services

 

 

Provides secure integration of Cisco SCCP-based IP telephony services with Cisco CallManager Version 4.1 while 
successfully connecting calls over multiprotocol VoIP environments across NAT and PAT boundaries

 

MGCP Security Services

 

 

Enables rich MGCP security services and NAT- and PAT-based address translation services for MGCP-based 
connections between media gateways and call agents or media gateway controllers

 

RTSP Security Services

 

 

Delivers NAT-based address translation services for RTSP media streams for improved support in real-time 
networking environments

 

TAPI/JTAPI over CTIQBE 
Security Services

 

 

Supports inspection of various Cisco TAPI- and JTAPI-based applications that use CTIQBE, including Cisco IP 
SoftPhone and the Cisco Customer Response solution

 

Fragmented and 
Segmented Multimedia 
Stream Inspection

 

 

Enables inspection of H.323, SIP, and SCCP-based voice and multimedia streams that have been fragmented or 
segmented

 

Advanced TCP Security 
Engine

 

 

Supports several foundational capabilities to assist in detecting protocol and application layer attacks 

 

Provides TCP stream reassembly and analysis services to help detect attacks that are spread across a series of 
packets

 

 

Offers TCP traffic normalization services for additional techniques to detect attacks, including advanced flag and 
option checking, TCP packet checksum verification, detection of data tampering in retransmitted packets, and 
more

 

Anti-X Security Services

 

Advanced Intrusion 
Prevention and Anti-X 
Services

 

 

Delivers advanced protection from known and unknown network and application layer attacks, DoS attacks, and 
malware, including worms, network viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, and adware 

 

Analyzes network traffic accurately for these threats using a wide range of techniques, including stateful pattern 
recognition, protocol analysis, traffic anomaly detection, protocol anomaly detection, and Layer 2 analysis to 
detect man-in-the-middle attacks

 

 

Provides specialized safeguards to “scrub” network traffic to prevent “detection evasion” attempts, including IP 
fragmentation reassembly and normalization, TCP stream reassembly and normalization, TCP evasion control, 
as

 

well as IP antispoofing and deobfuscation services

 

 

Helps ensure malicious attacks are stopped without impacting legitimate traffic by using innovative Cisco Risk 
Rating technology—incorporating four elements (event severity, signature fidelity, asset value, and attack 
relevancy) to accurately determine the risk of an event, and then confidently performing administrator-specified 
mitigation action(s)

 

 

Provides on-device event correlation capabilities through Cisco Meta Event Generator to quickly identify and stop 
new threats and optionally reduce the number of events sent to centralized monitoring systems for analysis 

 

Supports both "in-line" prevention of attacks, as well as detection only, of attacks in both routed or Layer 2 

Summary of Contents for Cisco ASA 5500 Series

Page 1: ...network antivirus and IP Security Secure Sockets Layer IPSec SSL VPN technologies deliver robust application security user and application based access control worm and virus mitigation malware protection and remote user and site connectivity Extensible Adaptive Identification and Mitigation services architecture Taking advantage of a modular services processing and policy framework the Cisco Adap...

Page 2: ...k detection coupled with advanced analysis techniques resulting in highly accurate threat classification that helps ensure appropriate mitigation actions are taken with no impact on legitimate network traffic Advanced Detection Techniques To help ensure that threats do not go unnoticed the Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers numerous methods to identify policy violations anomalous activity and vulnerabil...

Page 3: ...ologies that deliver tailored solutions to suit connectivity requirements providing employees company managed desktops with robust customizable remote access through an IPSec VPN For situations where endpoints are not company managed such as extranets Internet kiosks or employee owned desktops the Cisco ASA 5500 Series delivers WebVPN for SSL based remote access Taking advantage of Cisco remote ac...

Page 4: ...ents that require simultaneous dual stack support of IPv4 and IPv6 Quality of Service QoS Low Latency Queuing LLQ and Traffic Policing features support applications with demanding QoS requirements such as voice or video helping ensure an end to end network QoS policy latency sensitive traffic can be prioritized ahead of file transfer and other more delay tolerant traffic IP phone zero touch provis...

Page 5: ...cess VPN capabilities Alternatively it serves equally well in the network interior for interdepartmental access control and to guard against worms viruses and other malicious code that internal users may unwittingly bring into a network In small business and branch office environments the Cisco ASA 5500 Series serves as an all in one solution offering comprehensive threat prevention and VPN servic...

Page 6: ...ty of desktop server and network security solutions to determine the actual attack path and provide mitigation options thus simplifying security incident management for environments where dedicated security analysts may not be available Additionally Cisco offers the CiscoWorks Security Information Management Solution CiscoWorks SIMS which is well suited for large enterprises and managed security s...

Page 7: ...e tracking response validation Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIME type validation and content control Uniform Resource Identifier URI length enforcement and more Tunneling Application Control Provides advanced inspection services to detect and optionally block instant messaging peer to peer file sharing and other applications tunneling through Web application ports Blocks popular instant m...

Page 8: ...in real time networking environments TAPI JTAPI over CTIQBE Security Services Supports inspection of various Cisco TAPI and JTAPI based applications that use CTIQBE including Cisco IP SoftPhone and the Cisco Customer Response solution Fragmented and Segmented Multimedia Stream Inspection Enables inspection of H 323 SIP and SCCP based voice and multimedia streams that have been fragmented or segmen...

Page 9: ...ts inbound and outbound access control lists ACLs for interfaces time based ACLs and per user or group policies for improved control over network and application usage Simplifies management of security policies by giving administrators the ability to create reusable network and service object groups that can be referenced by multiple security policies simplifying initial policy definition and ongo...

Page 10: ...PN Client Available on wide range of platforms including Microsoft Windows 98 ME NT 2000 and XP Sun Solaris Intel based Linux distributions and Apple Macintosh OS X Provides many innovative features including dynamic security policy downloading from Cisco Easy VPN Server enabled products automatic failover to back up Easy VPN Servers administrator customizable distributions and more Integrates wit...

Page 11: ... of a system or network failure network sessions are automatically transitioned between firewalls with complete transparency to users Active Active Stateful Failover Provides a complementary solution to Active Standby failover where both systems in an Active Active failover pair actively pass network traffic simultaneously effectively doubling the throughput of the failover pair for bursty network...

Page 12: ...ath routes Routing Information Protocol RIP Dynamic Routing Enables secure integration in RIP based enterprise networks by learning routing updates for both versions 1 and 2 of the protocol Protects against RIP based reconnaissance activities and DoS attacks by supporting plaintext and keyed MD5 authentication methods for RIPv2 Multicast Routing Streamlines the delivery of multimedia traffic in vi...

Page 13: ...l user database or through integration with enterprise databases either directly using TACACS and RADIUS or indirectly with Cisco Secure Access Control Server ACS Supports up to 16 levels of customizable administrative roles so that businesses can grant administrators and operations personnel the appropriate level of access to each appliance for example monitoring only access read only access to t...

Page 14: ...configuration data certificates and key material stored on Cisco ASA 5500 Series appliances by automatically wiping flash memory contents if an asset recovery or password reset procedure occurs if preconfigured to do so Scheduled System Reloads Allows administrators to schedule a reload on a Cisco ASA 5500 Series appliance either at a specific time or at an offset from the current time making it s...

Page 15: ... a Security Plus license This license increases port density on the platform by enabling the fourth Fast Ethernet port and removing the restriction on the out of band management port so that it can be repurposed to a general traffic port if desired Integration into switched network environments is simplified with this license as support for up to 10 VLANs is enabled Furthermore this upgrade licens...

Page 16: ...products listed in Table 3 for site to site VPN connectivity Table 3 Site to Site VPN Compatibility Between Cisco ASA 5500 Series and VPN Products VPN Gateway Versions Supported Cisco ASA 5500 Series Appliances Cisco ASA Software Version 7 0 1 and later Cisco IOS Software Routers Cisco IOS Software Release 12 1 6 T and later Cisco PIX Security Appliances Cisco PIX Security Appliance Software Versi...

Page 17: ...forms Supported Cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive Security Appliance Cisco ASA 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance Minimum RAM Cisco ASA 5510 256 MB Cisco ASA 5520 512 MB Cisco ASA 5540 1024 MB Minimum System Flash Memory 64 MB Expansion Cards Supported Cisco AIP SSM AIP SSM 10 AIP SSM 20 ORDERING INFORMATION To place an order visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page or ref...

Page 18: ...sion 7 0 Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager Version 5 0 SERVICE AND SUPPORT Cisco offers a wide range of services programs to accelerate customer success These innovative service programs are delivered through a unique combination of people processes tools and partners resulting in high levels of customer satisfaction Cisco services help you protect your network investment optimize network ope...

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