The Cisco ISA500 makes it easy for remote and mobile employees to establish secure VPN connections with IPsec or SSL encryption. A site-to-site IPsec VPN is ideal to secure communications between offices and provides complete network access. Mobile workers can use Cisco AnyConnect™ or Cisco VPN Client to establish SSL based VPN or IPsec based VPN connections to main offices while they are at customer sites, cafés, or the airport. Cisco ISA500 mobile and remote Virtual Private Network (VPN) user support provides the flexibility users need to work where, when and how they need to, without putting critical business data at risk.
Cisco ISA500 provides a wide breadth of networking capabilities to help ensure it along with the security it provides can be integrated into existing networks. This minimizes installation costs and increases peace of mind.
A key way that the Cisco ISA500 protects against business disruption is by providing capabilities that go beyond what the traditional firewall provides:Protection against internal threats and management of access control – To help protect your business from internal threats, the Cisco ISA500 provides zone-based firewall and security services, including IPS and antivirus capabilities. It helps protect wireless environments through secure wireless LAN (WLAN) support with robust authentication options and guest access management. Proactive prevention of intrusions and blockage of dangerous peer-to-peer communications – The Cisco ISA500 Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) capabilities can identify possible intrusions into the business network and take action to stop the intrusion and prevent further risk. The Cisco ISA500 Series can also block peer-to-peer and instant messaging traffic, and perform protocol inspection to help increase network security, enhance employee productivity, and keep the network available for business traffic.
ISA500 Content Security Protection Minimizes the Risk of Business Disruption:It uses web reputation technology to empower businesses and public institutions to prevent and protect users from accessing dangerous websites and content containing viruses, spyware, malware, and phishing links It provides spam limiting capability, which is a robust reputation-based spam filtering helps restore the effectiveness of email so that communication with customers, vendors, and partners continues uninterrupted. It provides gateway anti-virus that detects and blocks the most widespread and active malware, such as worms, spyware, root kits, and viruses at the network layer
Cisco ISA500 minimizes the risk of business disruption by using up-to-date threat protection to guard against new threats as they appear. It:Uses cloud based security services – security protection solutions are updated at the cloud to catch new threats as they appearWill either interact with the cloud directly to get security protection response or service data feeds
Easy cloud-based or onbox management with Cisco OnPlus and the ISA500 embedded management utility – The Cisco ISA500 Series can be managed using the embedded Security Appliance Configuration Utility, a powerful yet easy-to-use browser-based management and monitoring interface. In addition to supporting management and monitoring, the Configuration Utility provides security and network usage reports so administrators can quickly and easily review security activities and network operation status.
The Cisco® Small Business ISA500 Series Integrated Security Appliance is an all-in-one solution. It provides security solution that combines highly secure Internet, wireless, dual WAN, site-to-site, and remote access with a breadth of unified threat management (UTM) capabilities. These capabilities include firewall, email, web security, and application control to provide the peace of mind small and medium businesses need to have to know they are protected and that they’ve minimized the risk of business disruption.
Cisco ISA500 provides a wide breadth of networking capabilities to help ensure it along with the security it provides can be integrated into existing networks. This minimizes installation costs and increases peace of mind.
In addition to being able to be managed using the embedded Security Appliance Configuration Utility, a powerful yet easy-to-use browser-based management and monitoring interface, Cisco ISA500 can also be managed using the Cisco OnPlus™ Service. This cloud-based platform provides discovery and monitoring of the entire small business network. It also lets SMBs offload network management tasks to a trusted partner, so they’re free to focus on their core business instead of network management. Cisco OnPlus also provides reporting services via its Advanced Security Services capabilities. With Advanced Security Services, SMBs and partners can generate security, network usage, and system status reports such as intrusion attack events and WAN bandwidth utilization at a scheduled interval and time. These reports can be stored in a PDF file format and shared via email. All combined, the Cisco ISA500 provides a variety of management capabilities and options that support proactive network service and support that can help increase network availability and provide peace of mind.
Cisco ISA500 comes standard with both hardware and comprehensiveUTM security services. Out of all of the security services, seven of them are subscription based. They are constantly updated by Cisco to provide up-to-date protection to ISA500 customers.These seven security services are covered by a single license. Customers do not need to purchase a separate license for these security services. It comes standard with the ISA500. However, customers will need to buy a “renewal” license to continue using security services when their subscription term expires.
The Cisco® Small Business ISA500 Series Integrated Security Appliance provides affordable, all-in-one Internet, wireless, and security with a wide breadth of unified threat management (UTM) services, including firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS), antivirus, antispyware, web threat protection, web URL filtering, spam protection, and application control. It is optimized to help protect businesses, improve employee productivity, and allow easy deployment in minutes.The combined power of Cisco’s performance, comprehensive UTM security capabilities, easy-to-use design, and superior threat intelligence keeps SMBs more secure, and increases both uptime and employee productivity, while minimizing operational costs and the risk of business disruption.
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