Modules

The hardware-accelerated Cisco® Advanced Inspection and Protection Security Services Card 5 (AIP SSC-5) for the Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance brings the market-leading Cisco ASA 5500 IPS solution to the SMB market and to branch deployments. The card's intrusion prevention capabilities greatly enhance firewall protection by blocking threats and network attacks, including worms, Trojans, viruses, and attacks against operating system and application vulnerabilities. Providing up to 75 Mbps of IPS throughput, the AIP SSC-5 can protect both IPv6 and IPv4 networks.

The Cisco ASA 5500 AIP-SSM-10 Security Service Module for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance provides proactive, full-featured intrusion prevention services to stop malicious traffic, including worms and network viruses, before they can affect your network.

The Cisco AIP-SSM-20 Advanced Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance provides proactive, full-featured intrusion prevention services to stop malicious traffic, including worms and network viruses, before they can affect your network.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series AIP SSM and AIP SSC are inline, network-based solutions that accurately identifies, classifies, and stops malicious traffic before it affects business continuity for IPv4, IPv6, and hybrid IPv6 and IPv4 networks. They combine inline prevention services with innovative technologies, resulting in total confidence in the provided protection of the deployed IPS solution, without the fear of legitimate traffic being dropped. The AIP SSM and AIP SSC also offer comprehensive network protection through its unique ability to collaborate with other network security resources, providing a proactive approach to protecting the network. Accurate inline prevention technologies provide unparalleled confidence to take preventive action on a broader range of threats without the risk of dropping legitimate traffic.