Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services brings distinctive threat-focused next-generation security services to the
Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls and Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance firewall
products. It provides comprehensive protection from known and advanced threats, including protection against
targeted and persistent malware attacks (Figure 1). Cisco ASA is the world?s most widely deployed, enterpriseclass
stateful firewall. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services features these comprehensive capabilities:

– Site-to-site and remote access VPN and advanced clustering provide highly secure, high-performance
access and high availability to help ensure business continuity.
– Granular Application Visibility and Control (AVC) supports more than 3,000 application-layer and risk-based
controls that can launch tailored intrusion prevention system (IPS) threat detection policies to optimize
security effectiveness.
– The industry-leading Cisco ASA with FirePOWER next-generation IPS (NGIPS) provides highly effective
threat prevention and full contextual awareness of users, infrastructure, applications, and content to detect
multivector threats and automate defense response.
– Reputation- and category-based URL filtering offer comprehensive alerting and control over suspicious web
traffic and enforce policies on hundreds of millions of URLs in more than 80 categories.
– AMP provides industry-leading breach detection effectiveness, a low total cost of ownership, and superior
protection value that helps you discover, understand, and stop malware and emerging threats missed by
other security layers.