Cisco ASA Next-Generation Firewalls with NGFW FirePower
Cisco FirePOWER NGFW appliances combine network firewall with the industry’s most effective next-generation IPS and advanced malware protection.
- the ability to prevent intrusions,
- protection against advanced malware,
- URL filtering,
- application visibility and control …all within a single consolidated appliance.
Firewalls have evolved and are now much more than just a filtering package and stateful inspection. Many companies are deploying next-generation firewalls to stop modern threats such as advanced malware and application-layer attacks.
As defined by Gartner, Inc. these are the advantages that a next-generation firewall should include:
- Standard firewall functions such as stateful inspection.
- Integrated intrusion prevention.
- Application detection and control to visualize and block applications that may generate risks.
- Update routes to add future sources of information.
- Techniques to cope with changing security threats.
These functions are increasingly present in many companies, but a next-generation firewall can provide much more.
NGFW focused on threats
This type of firewall has the features of a traditional next-generation firewall and also offers advanced threat detection and remediation. This is what you will be able to do with a threat-centric NGFW:
- Know which sectors are most at risk, thanks to their full visibility of the context.
- React quickly to attacks through intelligent security automation that sets policies and dynamically strengthens your defenses.
- More effectively detect evasive or suspicious activity by linking the network and the terminal event.
- Significantly reduce the time between detection and cleanup through retrospective security that continuously monitors for suspicious activity and behavior even after an initial inspection.
- Simplifies management and reduces complexity through unified policies that provide protection throughout the attack cycle.
