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Which Cisco ASA5510?

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by liam

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We?ve got a small company with about 50 employees. Currently we are about to upgrade our Internet connection to Metro Ethernet and alone with that are looking at replacing our Linux based firewall with Cisco?s ASA 5510 solution. The question however is what solution is best: the 5510 by itself, the 5510 with AIP module, or the 5510 with the CSC10 module.

Currently our existing firewall just does NAT, Spam Scanning, and Transparent web proxy.

Any help is appreciated.

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by j.bryce.reeves

I have never used the two modules you are speaking of, I have only Used the ASA. It is an extremely capable firewall in itself. But if you are wanting actual content management, or some form of proxy, as it seems by your post, From what I can see the CSC 10 is probably what you are looking for.It doesn't look like the AIP module actually does URL, spam, phishing, etc filtering.

by mwcombs

If you have a small company and need an all in one solution that I would look at something like a sidewinder firewall or a unified threat managment also known as a UTM. I work with ASAs and the trouble is that it's mainly just a stateful firewall unless you start adding tons of modules or integrate it with something like websense. A sidewinder will not only give you the stateful filtering but it can also act like as a proxy and web filter. It can filter trojans, worms and tons of other malicious content out of the web traffic. This will give you an overall sound security solution without the havoc of trying to manage multiple devices.

Mark Combs

by richa.mittal

If you have a small company and need an all in one solution that I would look at something like unified threat managment also known as a UTM.Cyberoam firewall is the only UTM firewall that embeds user identity in firewall rule matching criteria, enabling enterprises to configure policies and identify users directly by the username rather than through IP addresses. Cyberoam?s powerful hardware firewall provides stateful and deep packet inspection, access control, user authentication, network and application-level protection.

The ICSA-certified Cyberoam firewall is available along with VPN, gateway anti-virus and anti-spyware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering, bandwidth management and multiple link management, providing comprehensive security to small, medium and large enterprises, including remote and branch offices. Cyberoam is a Check Mark Level 5 certified UTM solution.

Key Features

1.Stateful Inspection Firewall
2.Centralized management for multiple security features
3.Embeds user identity in rule-matching criteria
4.Multiple zone security
5.Granular IM, P2P controls
6.ICSA certified

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