Integrated Perimeter Defense

Cisco IOS Firewall helps guarantee network availability and security of company resources by protecting the network infrastructure against network and application layer attacks, viruses, and worms. Cisco IOS Firewall is a widely deployed, state-full firewall solution, certified by both Common Criteria (EAL4) and ICSA.

Typically deployed in branch offices, small to medium business environments, or managed services, Cisco IOS Firewall provides effective control of different application traffic flowing through the network. A fundamental part of the Cisco Integrated Threat Control framework, it works with a variety of other Cisco IOS Security features such as IOS IPS, IOS URL Filtering, and IOS NAT to create a completely integrated, branch office perimeter security solution.

Benefits

• Protects network resources — Uses existing routing capabilities to offer distributed threat mitigation of worms, viruses, and other network and application layer threats and exploits
• Lowers total cost of ownership — Reduces equipment footprint and minimizes power consumption
• Increases deployment flexibility — Offers options for transparent and virtual firewall policies on wide variety of WAN, WLAN, LAN and VLAN interfaces
• Helps achieve regulatory compliance — Provides policy-based access control to meet PCI, HIPAA, SOX and other regulations