ASA Firewall History

What is ASA?

ASA stands for Adaptive Security Appliance.
ASA is a security device that combines firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, and virtual private network (VPN) capabilities. It provides proactive threat defense that stops attacks before they spread through the network.

ASA is valuable and flexible in that it can be used as a security solution for both small and large networks

History of Firewall

• Cisco First Introduced PIX Firewall in year 1999.
• Later ASA Firewall was introduced as an Advanced version of PIX in the year 2005/06.
• Cisco further added ASA-X Series in the year 2012, which brought about more advanced features in Firewall.

ASA Firewall are of different types depending on its features and capabilities
 ASA Firewall and its Types