The popular Cisco PIX Security Appliance Series of firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX firewalls provide a high level of security, performance and reliability for network environments of all sizes.

PIX firewalls are based on a hardened, specially built operating system, PIX OS, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes. The PIX has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification as well as Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status.

• Advanced application-aware firewall services
• Voice over IP(VoIP) and multimedia security
• Robust site-to-site and remote-access IPSec VPN connectivity
• Intelligent networking services
• Flexible management solutions

  
  Highlights of Cisco's PIX Firewalls
  
  Cisco PIX Security Appliances integrate a broad range of advanced firewall services to protect businesses from threats present on the Internet and common on business network environments. Version 7.0 of the Cisco's PIX Security Appliance Series features:
  

• Deep inspection firewall services for HTTP, FTP, Extended
• Instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and tunneling application blocking
• Cisco Modular Policy Framework with flow-based security policies
• Virtual firewall services
• Layer 2 transparent firewall
• 3G Mobile Wireless security services
• VPN client security posture enforcement
• Automatic VPN client software updating
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) dynamic routing over VPN tunnels
• Active/Active failover with asymmetric routing support
• Remote access and site-to-site VPN stateful failover
• Zero-downtime software upgrades
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routing
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• IPv6 networking
• SSHv2 and SNMPv2c
• Configuration rollback
• Usability enhancements
  
  How ACTS Can Provide Help with PIX Firewalls
  
  Cisco PIX Firewalls offer a wealth of configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting options which give you the flexibility to configure these security appliances to best meet your business needs. Management solutions include centralized policy-based management tools, integrated Web-based management, and support for remote-monitoring protocols such as SNMP and syslog. ACTS CCIE and CCNP certified security consultants can help you develop a security policy appropriate for your environment and can configure your firewall to enforce your security policy. ACTS can also troubleshoot your firewall both remotely and onsite, and can train your in-house IT staff to configure and maintain configure and your PIX firewall.

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• Cisco Routers Consulting and Support
• Cisco Aironet Wireless Consulting
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  For more information about ACTS consulting and support services for Cisco technology, call 1-(904) 317-2140 or send email to info@ACTSolution.net.