Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls

Summary

This chapter covered the basics of installing the ASA/PIX Security Appliance hardware, the ASA/PIX version 7 operating system, and the ASDM 5.0 management GUI.

The “Cisco ASA/PIX Security Appliance Overview” section covered the functions of the security appliance that are deployed in this book, including the following:

• Denial-of-service protection

• Traffic filtering

• Interface isolation (DMZ deployment)

• Stateful traffic inspection

• Application inspection

• User authentication

• Intrusion prevention

• Secure management

• Event logging

These functions are the basics that should be deployed by anyone who is using an ASA/PIX Security Appliance to secure his environment. As discussed in Appendix B, “ASA/PIX Version 7 Advanced Features,” you can deploy extra ...