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Traditional Firewall vs NGFW

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Candice | 0 Comments

What are the features and improvements of traditional firewalls and next-generation firewalls? Firewalls primarily provide protection against cyberattacks and malicious threats that invade your network and steal your data. While…

5 Network Security Mistakes Should Be Avoided When Working Remotely

Posted on April 24, 2020 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

Each enterprise has response to COVID-19 now. Under the impact of COVID-19, many enterprises let their employee begin remote work. However, it’s easy to make mistakes of network security when…

How to know your network needs to upgrade?

Posted on February 27, 2018 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

How to know your network needs to upgrade? Cisco listed 5 signs for your network is overdue for an upgrade, and also listed the main technologies and services that can…

Next-Generation Firewall in the Enterprise

Posted on March 22, 2017 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In today’s digital era, if you talk about the network security, you should know the Next-Generation Firewall. What do the NGFWs can do for you? What are their roles in…

What the 10 Biggest Cisco Events of 2016

Posted on December 30, 2016 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The year of 2016 is significant for the Networking Giant “Cisco”. What events and transformations do you think are top Cisco stories of 2016? Here Mark Haranas (associate editor, covers…

How to Change the External Interface IP Address on ASA?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

What shall we need to do while Changing the External Interface IP Address on ASA? What common issues shall we pay attention to after changing the IP address on the…

What are the Considerations While Buying a Cisco Next-Generation Firewall?

Posted on January 13, 2015 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Is it necessary to buy a next-generation firewall to solve the problem of network security? For many midsize companies, traditional firewalls seem not effective at seeing what they are doing,…

Cisco ASA 5585-X Comparison

Posted on May 29, 2014 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Nowadays, Cisco ASA 5585-X Series plays a vital role in the Data Center that is more important to the enterprise than ever before. To the need for high performance and…

Cisco ASA Failover, Failover Modes & ASA Failover Configuration

Posted on December 30, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

At a high level, What the ASA failover is? It is simple to describe the Cisco ASA failover: Two devices are connected to the network as they normally would be,…

Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA Software

Posted on October 15, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software is affected by the following vulnerabilities: IPsec VPN Crafted ICMP Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability SQL*Net Inspection Engine Denial of Service Vulnerability Digital Certificate Authentication Bypass Vulnerability …

Cisco Patches Flaw in Security Appliances, Switches, Routers

Posted on October 14, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco has released security patches for authentication bypass, command execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities affecting products that use its ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) software, as well as the Cisco Catalyst 6500…

Cisco ASA CX–Next Generation Firewall or Enterprise Firewall?

Posted on October 6, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In today’s network world, almost all applications tunnel themselves over HTTP, either due to their nature as web-based apps or the fact that they take advantage of port 80 being…

Migrating from Cisco ASA 5500 Series to ASA 5500-X Series

Posted on September 17, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The ASA 5500-X Series was redesigned to address higher performance requirements and increase flexibility when adding new services while maintaining the compact 1-RU form factor. Customers migrating from ASA 5500…

Q&A: How to Troubleshoot ASA, PIX, and FWSM?

Posted on August 24, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In this article we collected the answers for the questions on the Topic-Troubleshooting ASA, PIX, and FWSM. Note: It was provided by Kureli Sankar, which is available in the Ask The Expert section…

What Things to be Considered While Upgrading ASA 5500 Series?

Posted on August 13, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

When we upgrade an ASA 5500 firewall from 8.2 version to 8.3 or so, many things we need to list here. So we would like to share some tips about…

Cisco pxGrid Aims for Greater Network Security

Posted on June 18, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco is inviting security software developers to create applications for Cisco’s ISE management software with the pxGrid platform. Cisco officials are using the company’s Identity Services Engine as a cornerstone…

NAC Appliances: Shortcut to Access Control

Posted on March 20, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

To share a article about NAC Appliances From https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/feature/NAC-appliances-Shortcut-to-access-control Infrastructures that check endpoint health before network access have generated plenty of buzz, but precious little deployment. Some companies are waiting for a…