I have been tasked with "cleaning up" the rulesets on the various Cisco ASA firewalls we have in our enterprise. I know there are several software packages out there that can read the config and hit ...

Cisco is bringing technology obtained through last year’s acquisition of Sourcefire to its firewalls to enable threat-focused security for enterprises. Cisco’s ASA firewalls with Sourcefire’s ...

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Cisco took a stab at this in 2009, when it added the Modular Policy Framework, which brought many application-layer controls to the ASA. Rather than touch the delicately constructed NAT and policy ...