Enterprise-oriented Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition 
 Viruses and other malicious code that may damage IT resources, so that the business operations to a standstill and affected business transactions. The proliferation of spyware and illegal content on the Internet will not only severely damage the productivity of employees, but also the disclosure of personal information. Fortunately, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition is able to provide comprehensive malware protection and content control, so that enterprises can take full advantage of the Internet has brought a variety of convenient, but also to reduce the risk and cost of client systems suffer from infections and threats . Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition malware protection for enterprise-class firewall and high-quality organic combine to provide a powerful, integrated solutions, to provide effective protection for the enterprise network communications and control, to prevent viruses, worms, spyware software, network threats such as spam and phishing, control of illegal e-mail and Web content, while reducing the cost and complexity of deploying and managing multiple point solutions operation. 

 Challenge 
 In today's market, companies must rely on the Internet in order to improve productivity and efficiency, strengthen communication with customers and financial success. At the same time, the Internet has become the birthplace of the various types of network threats, including viruses, spyware, trick and other malicious threats. It is the past eager young vandals famous theme park, and now has turned into a hotbed full of goals for the money figures and organized crime. 

 Either enterprises need to enhance business continuity and security, improve staff productivity, reduce network wastage, control information theft and reduce the legal issues, reduce operating costs, and reduce the administrative burden. However, the majority of businesses are finding increasing Internet threats for client systems, thus difficult to achieve corporate goals. Before, you must add the equipment and technology for the network, the need to increase the cost and complexity, in order to strike a balance between business needs and security requirements. 

 Solutions 
 Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition allows enterprises not only can give full play to the advantages of the Internet business, but also the use of a comprehensive gateway security and VPN connectivity solutions. Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition has an integrated firewall, Content Security and VPN functionality can be removed from the e-mail and Internet traffic malware, spyware, spam and phishing attempt to maximize business continuity and security. Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition with integrated URL filtering together to enable the agencies to restrict access to illegal Web sites, so as to control employee Internet use, and thus be able to provide a flexible, comprehensive perimeter security and employee productivity management. The solution also provides VPN services to provide remote access of threat defense. 

 The most trusted, has been widely deployed firewall technology - Cisco ASA 5500 Series Series Security Appliances Cisco PIX? Has been market-proven features not only allow legitimate business processes through, and can effectively block unwelcome visitor. Its application control capabilities, the solution can limit peer-to-peer sharing, instant messaging and malicious traffic, thereby reducing security vulnerabilities, protect the network against various threats. 
 Market-leading security features - Cisco ASA 5500 Series, Trend Micro's award-winning gateway security technology with Cisco threat prevention organically combine to provide comprehensive malware protection solutions through integrated URL and content filtering to block spyware, viruses, spam and improper content entering the network. 
 Anti-virus and anti-spyware software - Trend Micro's award-winning anti-virus and anti-spyware technology, Cisco ASA 5500 Series device to prevent almost all known malicious code into the edge of the Internet, thereby preventing damage of business-critical applications and services, reduce the need to perform after the infected expensive clean-up process. 
 URL and content filtering and anti-phishing - Integrated URL filtering, content filtering and anti-phishing technology to prevent enterprises and confidentiality of personal information is stolen, in order to reduce the liability. In addition, it can also help enterprises to improve compliance, such as the health insurance portability and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Data Protection Act. 
 The anti-spam - integrated anti-spam technology to detect and prevent illegal e-mail into the mail server, to improve employee productivity, prevent network bandwidth and storage waste. 
 The threat defense VPN - Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition is based on the Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrator market-proven VPN capabilities, able to provide to the sites secure access and remote users to access the corporate network and services site. The solution to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IP Security (IPSec) VPN features organically combined in an optimal solution, to provide enterprises with a high safety connection flexibility. Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition provides services companies to implement identity-based security and networking strategies to effectively prevent malicious software as well as many other forms of attack, to safely extend the network to employees, contractors and business partners. 
 Easy to deploy and manage - Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition provides centralized management and monitoring suite, just a small amount of manpower and cost will be able to support large-scale deployment and operation. Cisco provides a complete management and monitoring solutions, but also through the Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) for each safety device to provide powerful, easy-to-use, browser-based management and monitoring interface. 

 Business advantage 
 Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition provides the security and connectivity can help companies: 

 Business Continuity - to prevent business-critical applications and services are interrupted due to malware infections and security issues. 
 Improve damaged site clean-up - reduce infected expensive clean-up process, the IT support staff freed from cumbersome spyware, viruses, and other malware cleanup tasks. 
 Increase employee productivity - reduce spam, spyware, and is not conducive to the work of the event, and increase employee productivity. 
 Improve the utilization of network resources - delete-business related traffic and content, and to prevent the waste of network bandwidth and storage. 

 Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition is a complete Internet edge security solutions. Because it is tightly integrated with Cisco management and monitoring system, which can help agencies deploy and maintain security solutions that maximize the value of the network and employees (see Figure 1). 

 Figure 1 solutions architecture 



 Major components 
 Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition 
 Provide comprehensive client security at the network edge and remote site location. 

 Management 
 Cisco Security Manager (CS-Manager) for large-scale deployment of Cisco's security technology to provide enterprise-level management structure. 

 Monitor 
 Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) provides real-time monitoring and security incident response capabilities, to enable the agencies to take full advantage of the performance of the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Content Security Edition Advanced inspection services. 

 Complementary solutions 
 Cisco? ASA 5500 Series adaptive security appliances is a modular platform, able to provide a new generation of security and VPN services for small and medium-sized enterprises and enterprise applications. Cisco ASA 5500 Series provides comprehensive services through four custom package version of the product to meet the security needs of different specific locations: Firewall Edition, VPN, IPS, and Anti-X version. 

 These packages can provide appropriate services to the right place, and thus can achieve superior protection. At the same time, they also support the Cisco ASA 5500 Series platform standardization, in order to reduce the cost of management, training and spare parts. Finally, because each version provides security solutions, and thus be able to simplify the design and deployment of pre-packaged for a different location. 

 Figure 2 mutually complementary solution 



 Cisco and its partners to provide world-class service and support for your business. Cisco uses a full life of service method, in order to meet customer requirements necessary to deploy and operate Cisco ASA 5500 Series security appliances, and ultimately improve the network's value and return on investment. . 

 Solutions suggested 
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