The document discusses various common security threats and how to mitigate them using Cisco's IOS Firewall features. It describes application-layer attacks, autorooters, backdoors, denial of service attacks, IP spoofing, man-in-the-middle attacks, network reconnaissance, packet sniffers, password attacks, port redirection attacks, Trojan horse attacks and viruses, and trust exploitation attacks. It then outlines Cisco IOS Firewall features like stateful inspection, intrusion detection, firewall voice traversal, ICMP inspection, authentication proxy, destination URL policy management, per-user firewalls, router provisioning, DoS prevention, dynamic port mapping, Java applet blocking, traffic filtering, multi-interface support, NAT, time-