Cisco ASA Firewall

Overview:

You take precautions against intrusion attempts, through Cisco ASA firewall.

Simple and quick to administer, you configure your filtering rules directly from a graphical interface in https:// client access through Java.

Uses:

The Cisco ASA firewall, protects you thanks to these features:

• Inspection Application: control application, support of voice and video protocols;
• Intrusion Prevention: real-time protection against attacks from DOS applications, detection and filtering network activity of worms and viruses, detect spyware, adware and malware;
• Securing IPCom: Advanced inspection of voice protocols, specific IP signatures;
• SSL and IPsec Connectivity: protected IPSec and SSL services, SSL services with client or portal;
• Management of 450 Mbps traffic;
• Enable or disable your firewall, directly from your manager.

Principle of operation

Connection

Your firewall is directly connected between your server and the OVH router.

Interface administration

The firewall comes with Cisco's management console. You will find below some excerpts from the interface:

Advantages:

With the Cisco ASA firewall, you get a dedicated physical firewall to protect your server.

The deployment and activation of this equipment is provided by OVH. More efficient than a software firewall, the firewall Cisco ASA can not be a victim of unwanted deactivation from human action or a software system attacker.
Moreover, its protection will remain active independently of the level of resources available on your dedicated server.

Order a Cisco ASA firewall:

The "Professional Usage" option must be enabled on your server in order to benefit from this option.