Cisco has announced a sales promotion that allows you to trade in your Cisco PIX security appliances for a credit toward the purchase of Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series delivers a powerful combination of technologies in a single platform, making it operationally and economically feasible for you to deploy comprehensive security services to more locations. The Cisco ASA 5500 Series also offers a comprehensive portfolio of security services that are customized through product editions tailored for:

• Firewall
• Intrusion prevention
• Anti-X
• Virtual private networks

These editions enable superior protection by combining a focused set of Cisco ASA services to meet the needs of specific environments within the enterprise network. By providing the right services for the right location, your overall network security is raised.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series enables standardization on a single platform to reduce the overall operational cost of security. A common environment for configuration simplifies management and reduces training costs for staff, and the common hardware platform of the series reduces sparing costs. Whether you want to deploy new security services or refresh your existing network, migrating your Cisco PIX security appliance to the Cisco ASA 5500 Series delivers tangible business and technological advantages:

• Trusted Firewall and Threat—Protected VPN Technology—Built upon trusted Cisco PIX Security Appliance and Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrator technology, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series is the first solution to offer Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IP Security (IPsec) VPN services protected by leading firewall technology.
• Comprehensive Anti-X Services—Trend Micro's expertise in threat protection and content control at the Internet edge is combined with proven Cisco solutions providing comprehensive antivirus, antispyware, file blocking, antispam, antiphishing, URL blocking and filtering, and content filtering.
• Advanced Intrusion Prevention—Proactive, full-featured intrusion prevention services counteract a wide range of threats, including worms, application-layer attacks, operating-system-level attacks, rootkits, spyware, peer-to-peer file sharing, and instant messaging.
• Rich Management and Monitoring Services—Intuitive single-device management and monitoring services are delivered through the Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) and enterprise-class multidevice management services through Cisco Security Manager.
• Reduced Deployment and Operations Costs—By providing a design and interface consistent with existing Cisco security solutions, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series enables significantly lower ownership costs for both initial security deployment and day-to-day management.

Promotion Details
Through April 26, 2008, you can use the Cisco Technology Migration Program (TMP) to trade in Cisco PIX security appliances and receive credit toward the purchase of new multifunction Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances.

Contact Nettitude today to get more information about this programme.