Cisco sprinkles Sourcefire goodies on ASA firewalls

By Richard Chirgwin, 17 Sep 2014
 
Cisco has taken the next step in wrapping the technology it acquired along with Sourcefire, by putting its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) next-gen firewalls and the FirePOWER technology into the blender and giving it a good spin.
The idea is to run up a combination of firewall, application control, intrusion prevention and malware protection, for either new customers (buying the Cisco ASA 5500 Series firewall with FirePOWER services) or as a licence buy for existing 5500-X or 5585-X.
 As Cisco's ANZ general manager of security Anthony Stitt explained to Vulture South, “there's a huge installed base of ASAs that can be software upgraded with this.”
Stitt told El Reg an important part of the integration of the IPS/firewall combination is that it's designed to thin out the usual flood of notifications and alarms presented to sysadmins. The combination, he said, lets the firewall automatically build a profile of the network and its hosts, from servers down to mobiles.
 
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