CISCO ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances

Cisco ASA 5500 Series SSL/IPsec VPN Edition

Delivering Safe, Secure, and Flexible Remote Network Access to Any Location

Today’s remote-access VPN deployments require the ability to safely and easily extend corporate network access beyond managed desktops to different users, devices, and endpoints. The Cisco® ASA 5500 Series SSL/IPsec VPN Edition (also known as the Cisco Secure Remote Access solution) enables organizations to securely provide network access to a broad array of users, including mobile and fixed endpoints, remote offices, contractors, and business partners.

Supporting a wide range of deployment and application environments, the Cisco Secure Remote Access solution delivers maximum value to your organization with the most comprehensive set of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and IP security (IPsec) Virtual Private Network (VPN) features, performance, and scalability in the industry. Cisco Secure Remote Access also provides organizations with the ability to use a powerful combination of multiple market-proven firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS), and content security technologies on a single unified platform.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security and Control Security Services Module (CSC-SSM) delivers industry-leading threat protection and content control at the Internet edge providing comprehensive antivirus, anti-spyware, file blocking, anti-spam, anti-phishing, URL blocking and filtering, and content filtering-all available in a comprehensive easy-to-manage solution delivered by industry leaders. The CSC-SSM bolsters the Cisco ASA 5500 Series' strong security capabilities providing customers with additional protection and control over the content of their business communications. The service module provides additional flexibility and choice over the functionality and deployment of Cisco's award-winning Cisco ASA 5500 Series Family of appliances.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series CSC-SSM helps businesses more effectively protect their networks, increase network availability, and increase employee productivity through the following elements:

• Comprehensive malware protection — Utilizes Trend Micro's award-winning antivirus and anti-spyware technologies. The CSC-SSM can prevent virtually all known malicious code from entering and propagating across the network. This helps prevent disruption of business critical applications and services, prevent valuable key systems and employee downtime and reduce the costly process of cleaning up after an infection.
• Advanced content filtering — Integrates URL, content filtering and anti-phishing technology that helps protect the business and individual employees from the theft of confidential information as well as reduce potential legal liabilities associated with content in violation of network use policies. It can also aid businesses comply with network content regulations such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Data Protection Act.
• Integrated message security — Integrates anti-spam technology that removes the vast majority of unsolicited e-mail before it gets to the mail server, increasing employee productivity and preventing wastage of valuable network bandwidth and storage resources.
• Customization and tuning capabilities — Provides administrators with the ability to customize control over spam and content functions to suit specific corporate policies or network environments.
• Ease of management and automatic update capabilities — Ships with intelligent default settings and an intuitive interface integrated with the ASA-5500 Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) to ease initial configuration, deployment and ongoing operations. Automatic updates of all CSC-SSM components including scanning engines and pattern files; ensures that the network is always protected against the latest threats with minimal administrative effort.