Migration Guide from Cisco PIX 500 to Cisco ASA 5500 Series

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances bring a combination of powerful, multiple market-proven technologies in a single platform, making Cisco ASA5500 firewalls operationally and economically feasible for businesses to deploy in-depth security services to more locations. Migrate your Cisco PIX Security Firewall to the Cisco ASA 5500 Series for converged, multifunction security and VPN services within a single platform.

Primary Business Notions

Flexible Deployment Options include customized product editions tailored to address specific enterprise needs:

• Firewall Edition
• Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Edition
• Content Security Edition
• SSL/IPSec VPN Edition

Lower Total Operating Expenditures (OpEx) can be definied as unified device management and monitoring results in lower overall installation and servicing costs. A single platform decreases complexity and simplifies deployments and ongoing support.

For Lower Capital Expenditures (CapEx), the convergence and enhanced Technology Migration Plan (TMP) credits reduce the total cost of migration today.

Primary Technology Factors

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 market-leading firewall technology.

Proactive, full-featured intrusion prevention services stop a wide range of threats, including worms, application layer attacks, operating-system-level attacks, rootkits, spyware, and more.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series offers comprehensive antivirus, antispyware, file blocking, antispam, antiphishing, URL blocking and filtering, and content filtering services, providing industry-leading Content Security services with Trend Micro’s expertise in threats and a proven network firewall solution.

The Cisco ASA 5500 Series takes advantage of customers' existing knowledge of Cisco PIX Security Appliances for easy migration to Cisco ASA 5500 solution.

Migration Options