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PIX Firewall Consulting:
Architecture, Integration and Support

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Cisco PIX Firewall consulting 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.

PIX firewalls provide multiple integrated security and networking services, including:

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 NOVA 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.