Review of Cisco combined firewall, VPN and IPS ASA 5000 series

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Test: Review of Cisco combined firewall, VPN and IPS ASA 5000 series, 05/01/06

With its first iteration of the Adaptive Security Appliance a year ago this week, Cisco shipped its first new stand-alone enterprise firewall/VPN combination in nearly five years. Since then, Cisco has followed through on its integrated-appliance road …

Test: Testing Cisco’s new SSL VPN technology, 05/01/06

Cisco has put its most-advanced SSL VPN technology into its Adaptive Security Appliance 5540 with Version 7.1. In our test of a late beta of that software, we found that while it provides a solid and compact feature set for creating smaller SSL VPN …

Test: How we tested Cisco appliance, 05/01/06

We tested the ASA 5540 running prerelease Version 7.1 software in our network in Tucson, Ariz. We removed an existing NetScreen firewall and placed a high-availability pair of ASA devices as the primary firewall for one of our production subnets. The ASA

Motorola, Cisco scrap planned dual-mode phone, 04/26/06

Motorola and Cisco have stopped development of a planned dual-mode cellular and Wi-Fi phone in favor of allowing multiple devices to work with any vendor’s enterprise IP phone switch, a Motorola executive said Wednesday.