Cisco ASA With FirePOWER Services Combines Proven Firewall With Sourcefire Next-Generation IPS and Advanced Malware Protection for Integrated Threat Defense
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Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services is an adaptive, threat-focused NGFW that delivers superior, multi-layered protection, extending its capabilities far beyond legacy NGFW solutions. Until now, NGFWs have focused on policy and application control and have been unable to address advanced and zero-day attacks. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services changes this, taking a visibility-driven, threat-focused and platform-based approach:
Given shifting business models and the fast-changing threat landscape, an organization's approach to reducing the time from breach to recovery needs to be truly integrated and threat-focused. With mounting concern at the executive level regarding the threat of lost intellectual property and compromised customer information and confidence, organizations require broad coverage across all potential attack vectors that can rapidly adjust and learn from new attack methods, and then implement that intelligence to protect them. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services provides that integrated threat defense to truly help businesses address their biggest security risks -- advanced and zero-day threats.
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services provides superior visibility and continuous analysis to detect advanced, multi-vector threats and streamlines and automates response for both known and unknown malware. It also offers holistic, actionable IoCs that speed threat investigation and retrospective remediation, along with integrated incident response scoping and automated detection policy updates.
All of these innovations are supported by an enterprise-class stateful firewall, VPN, advanced clustering and granular application-layer and risk-based controls that evoke tailored NGIPS threat detection policies to optimize security effectiveness. Open source security integration with Snort, OpenAppID and ClamAV further allows customers to easily customize security to address new or specific threats and applications as quickly as possible.
Customers can gain the benefits of the solutions in two ways:
Cisco, with its partners, also provides professional and technical security services to help accelerate migration from customers' current security environments to the integrated threat defense of Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services. With deep expertise, proven processes and tools, and global resource availability, Cisco's security services help organizations migrate quickly and with minimal disruption.
More information about Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services is available at www.cisco.com/go/asafps
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"In today's climate of industrialized hacking and sophisticated cybercrime, we've entered an era in which legacy NGFW solutions are not enough to thwart attackers," said Christopher Young, senior vice president, security business group, Cisco. "Now more than ever, organizations need to be able to implement dynamic controls to manage the pace of change of their environments and address security incidents. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services is a major step forward for the NGFW market, empowering customers to deepen their protection from the data center, through the network, to the endpoint with the agility to identify, understand, and stop advanced threats in real-time and retrospectively."
"Like any high profile organization, Oak Ridge National Laboratory must be diligent about our security strategy because the sad reality is that every organization is the target of an attack as we saw firsthand in 2011," said Kevin Kerr, CISO at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "We cannot afford another surprise malware attack to disrupt our operations, which is why we are looking at the next generation of protective tools. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services is among some of the tools we are considering to help us defend the Lab."
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