Chapter 11. Application Inspection

New Features in PIX 7.0

The Cisco PIX firewall has been providing the ability to secure application protocols for many years now, and version 7.0 is no exception. The ability to correct or compensate for native insecurities in an application is a prime requirement for security. This feature is called application inspection in version 7.0. Prior to the release of version 7.0, the PIX firewall handled application inspection through the fixup feature. In version 7.0, this has been replaced by ...

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