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Next-generation firewalls

Next-generation firewalls

From the course: CompTIA SecurityX (CAS-005) Cert Prep

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Next-generation firewalls

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- As a SecurityX candidate, it's quite likely that you're familiar with traditional next generation firewalls. And on the exam, the prototypical next gen firewall would be the Cisco Secure ASA, adaptive security appliance. So if you're not familiar, then go up to cisco.com and make sure that you're familiar with this family of adaptive security appliances that have really kind of been the leader. Cisco is the dominant hardware out there. So the ASA is kind of the core operating system for this family. And some of the benefits of this next gen firewall would be integrated IPS, VPN and Unified Communications. And that just simply means that it's going to protect you against all different types of communication services, conferencing services, streaming services, chat services, voiceover IP, all of those things. It's high-performance, multi-site, multi-node clustering. So often we deploy these ASAs in clusters of three or five, high availability solutions, collaboration between your…

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