In 2017 The Shadow Brokers revealed the existence of two privilege escalation exploits against the ASA called EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON. Īnother flaw in a WebVPN feature was fixed in 2018. Ī security flaw was identified when users customized the Clientless SSL VPN option of their ASA's but was rectified in 2015. Early reviews indicated the Cisco GUI tools for managing the device were lacking. Reception and criticism Ĭisco ASA has become one of the most widely used firewall/VPN solutions for small to medium businesses. The Cisco ASA is a unified threat management device, combining several network security functions in one box. Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators, which provided virtual private networking (VPN).Cisco's IPS 4200 Series worked as intrusion prevention systems (IPS).Cisco PIX, which provided firewall and network address translation (NAT) functions, ended its sale on July 28, 2008.It succeeded three existing lines of popular Cisco products:

In computer networking, Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, or simply Cisco ASA, is Cisco's line of network security devices introduced in May 2005.

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