Integrated Internet and Unified Threat Management
Small- and medium-sized businesses need a simple, affordable, and easy-to-deploy solution that provides safe Internet access without disrupting business productivity. The Cisco Small Business ISA500 Series Integrated Security Appliance is an all-in-one solution that meets these requirements. It offers flexible Internet redundancy, comprehensive security, and very easy-to-use configuration flows.
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Features and Capabilities
The ISA500 offers the combined benefits of comprehensive unified threat management (UTM) enhanced security, easy-to-use design, and superior threat intelligence. This keeps your organization more secure, and increases both uptime and employee productivity. It also reduces operational costs and the risk of business disruption.
Optimized specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, the ISA500 is an affordable and easy-to-use solution that can be set up in minutes to start protecting your business. It offers the following features and capabilities:
Comprehensive UTM Security
- Reduces the risk of disruption
- Safeguards against attacks and threats with stateful, zone-based firewall, network reputation, and intrusion prevention system (IPS)
- Prevents and protects users from accessing dangerous websites with Cisco web reputation
- Detects and blocks widespread malware with gateway antivirus
- Supports multiple security policy profiles so an administrator can apply different security policies for different groups of users
- Provides superior threat protection with Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO)
Improved Productivity
- Offers highly secure remote office and out-of-office users communication with Cisco site-to-site and remote access VPN (Cisco AnyConnect client)
- Prevents and protects users from accessing improper websites and content with Cisco web URL filtering
- Prevents access to non-business applications using application control
- Helps you prioritize voice or business applications with quality of service (QoS) feature
- Keeps businesses running during outages with WAN redundancy
Simplified Use and Cost-Effectiveness
- Provides an affordable all-in-one solution
- Offers simplified configuration, set-up wizards, and navigation flows
- Provides cloud-based and on-box reporting
Specifications at a Glance
Security Appliance UTM Models | ISA550 | ISA570 | |||
ISA550 | ISA550W | ISA570 | ISA570W | ||
Hardware | Ports | 7 GE | 10 GE | ||
Wireless (802.11b/g/n, 2.4 GHz) |
Yes (on ISA550W) | Yes (on ISA570W) | |||
Security Acceleration HW | No | Yes | |||
Performance | Firewall | 200 Mbps | 500 Mbps | ||
VPN | 75 Mbps | 130 Mbps | |||
AV | 50 Mbps | 80 Mbps | |||
IPS | 60 Mbps | 90 Mbps | |||
UTM * | 45 Mbps | 75 Mbps | |||
Maximum Connections | 15,000 | 40,000 | |||
IPsec VPN Site-to-Site Tunnels | 25 | 100 | |||
IPsec Remote Access Tunnels | 10 | 75 | |||
SSL VPN Tunnels | 10 | 50 |
Models and Documents
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