Cisco ASA 5545-X with FirePOWER Services
Threat-Focused Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Designed for a New Era of Threat

Overview:

Meet the industry’s first adaptive, threat-focused next-generation firewall (NGFW) designed for a new era of threat and advanced malware protection. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services delivers integrated threat defense for the entire attack continuum - before, during, and after an attack - by combining the proven security capabilities of the Cisco ASA firewall with the industry-leading Sourcefire threat and advanced malware protection features together in a single device. The solution uniquely extends the capabilities of the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls beyond what today’s NGFW solutions are capable of.

Superior Multilayered Protection

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services brings distinctive threat-focused next-generation security services to the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls and Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance firewall products. It provides comprehensive protection from known and advanced threats, including protection against targeted and persistent malware attacks (Figure 1). Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services features these comprehensive capabilities:

• Site-to-site and remote access VPN and advanced clustering provide highly secure, high-performance access and high availability to help ensure business continuity.
• Granular Application Visibility and Control (AVC) supports more than 3,000 application-layer and risk-based controls that can launch tailored intrusion prevention system (IPS) threat detection policies to optimize security effectiveness.
• The industry-leading Cisco ASA with FirePOWER next-generation IPS (NGIPS) provides highly effective threat prevention and full contextual awareness of users, infrastructure, applications, and content to detect multivector threats and automate defense response.
• Reputation- and category-based URL filtering offer comprehensive alerting and control over suspicious web traffic and enforce policies on hundreds of millions of URLs in more than 80 categories.
• AMP provides industry-leading breach detection effectiveness, a low total cost of ownership, and superior protection value that helps you discover, understand, and stop malware and emerging threats missed by other security layers.

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services

Unprecedented Network Visibility

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services is centrally managed by the Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center. Management Center provides security teams with comprehensive visibility into and control over activity within the network. Such visibility includes users, devices, communication between virtual machines, vulnerabilities, threats, client-side applications, files, and websites. Holistic, actionable indications of compromise (IoCs) correlate detailed network and endpoint event information and provide further visibility into malware infections.

Management Center also provides content awareness with malware file trajectory that aids infection scoping and root cause determination to speed time to remediation.

Cisco Security Manager provides scalable and centralized network operations workflow management. It integrates a powerful suite of capabilities; including policy and object management, event management, reporting, and troubleshooting for Cisco ASA firewall functions. For small-scale and simple deployments, the Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) is available to provide on-device, GUI-based firewall network operations management.

Cisco’s enterprise-class management tools help administrators reduce complexity with unmatched visibility and control across NGFW deployments.

Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center:
Intuitive High-level and Detailed Drill-Down Dashboards

Reduced Costs and Complexity

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services incorporates an integrated approach to threat defense, reducing capital and operating costs and administrative complexity. It smoothly integrates with the existing IT environment, work stream, and network fabric. The purpose-built appliance family is highly scalable, performs at up to multigigabit speeds, and provides consistent and robust security across branch, Internet edge, and data centers in both physical and virtual environments.

With Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center, administrators can streamline operations to correlate threats, assess their impact, automatically tune security policy, and easily attribute user identities to security events. Management Center continually monitors how the network is changing over time. New threats are automatically assessed to determine which can affect your business. Response efforts are then focused on remediation, and network defenses are adapted to changing threat conditions. Critical security activities such as policy tuning are automated, saving time and effort, while protections and countermeasures are maintained in an optimal state.

Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center integrates easily with third-party security solutions through the eStreamer API to streamline operation workflows and fit existing network fabrics.

Features and Benefits:

Feature	Benefits
Next-generation firewall	Industry’s first threat-focused NGFW; provides ASA firewall functionality, advanced threat protection, and advanced breach detection and remediation combined in a single device
Proven ASA firewall	Rich routing, stateful firewall, Network Address Translation, and dynamic clustering for high-performance, highly secure, and reliable access with Cisco AnyConnect VPN
Market-leading NGIPS	Superior threat prevention and mitigation for both known and unknown threats
Advanced malware protection	Detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and remediation to protect the enterprise against targeted and persistent malware attacks
Full contextual awareness	Policy enforcement based on complete visibility of users, mobile devices, client-side applications, communication between virtual machines, vulnerabilities, threats, and URLs
Application control and URL filtering	Application-layer control (over applications, geolocations, users, websites) and ability to enforce usage and tailor detection policies based on custom applications and URLs
Enterprise-class management	Dashboards and drill-down reports of discovered hosts, applications, threats, and indications of compromise for comprehensive visibility
Streamlined operations automation	Lower operating cost and administrative complexity with threat correlation, impact assessment, automated security policy tuning, and user identification
Purpose-built, scalable	Highly scalable security appliance architecture that performs at up to multigigabit speeds; consistent and robust security across branch, Internet edge, and data centers in physical and virtual environments
On-device management	Simplifies advanced threat defense management for small and medium sized business with small scale deployments
Remote Access VPN	Extends secure corporate network access beyond corporate laptops to personal mobile devices, regardless of physical location; support for Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Solution, with granular, application-level VPN capability, as well as native Apple iOS and Android VPN clients
Site-to-site VPN	Protect traffic, including VoIP and client-server application data, across the distributed enterprise and branch offices
Third-party technology ecosystem	Open API that enables the third-party technology ecosystem to integrate with existing customer work streams
Integration with Snort and OpenAppID	Open source security integration with Snort and OpenAppID for access to community resources and ability to easily customize security to address new and specific threats and applications quickly
Collective Security intelligence (CSI)	Globally acclaimed security and web reputation intelligence for real-time security protection

Technical Specifications:

Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Low-End Appliances with FirePOWER Services
	Cisco ASA 5512-X w/ FirePOWER Services	Cisco ASA 5515-X w/ FirePOWER Services	Cisco ASA 5525-X w/ FirePOWER Services	Cisco ASA 5545-X w/ FirePOWER Services	Cisco ASA 5555-X w/ FirePOWER Services
Maximum application control (AVC) throughput	300 Mbps	500 Mbps	1,100 Mbps	1,500 Mbps	1,750 Mbps
Maximum application control (AVC) and IPS throughput	150 Mbps	250 Mbps	650 Mbps	1,000 Mbps	1,250 Mbps
Maximum concurrent sessions	100,000	250000	500,000	750,000	1,000,000
Maximum New Connections per second	10,000	15,000	20,000	30,000	50,000
Application control (AVC) or IPS sizing throughput [440 byte HTTP]*	100 Mbps	150 Mbps	375 Mbps	575 Mbps	725 Mbps
Supported applications	More than 3,000
URL categories	80+
Number of URLs categorized	More than 280 million
Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting	Multi-device Cisco Security Manager and Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center
On-Device Management	ASDM
Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls Hardware
	Cisco ASA 5512-X	Cisco ASA 5515-X	Cisco ASA 5525-X	Cisco ASA 5545-X	Cisco ASA 5555-X
Stateful inspection throughput (maximum1)	1 Gbps	1.2 Gbps	2 Gbps	3 Gbps	4 Gbps
Stateful inspection throughput (multiprotocol2)	500 Mbps	600 Mbps	1 Gbps	1.5 Gbps	2 Gbps
Triple Data Encryption Standard/Advanced Encryption Standard (3DES/AES) VPN throughput3	200 Mbps	250 Mbps	300 Mbps	400 Mbps	700 Mbps
Users/nodes	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
IPsec VPN peers	250	250	750	2500	5000
Cisco Cloud Web Security users	2000	3000	4000	5000	6000
Cisco AnyConnect Premium/Apex VPN peers (included; maximum)	2; 250	2; 250	2; 750	2; 2500	2; 5000
Virtual interfaces (VLANs)	50; 100	100	200	300	500
Security contexts5 (included; maximum)	0,0; 2,5	2;5	2; 20	2; 50	2; 100
High availability4	Requires Security Plus License; Active/Active and Active/Standby	Active/Active and Active/Standby	Active/Active and Active/Standby	Active/Active and Active/Standby	Active/Active and Active/Standby
Integrated Wireless Access Point	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Expansion slot	1 interface card	1 interface card	1 interface card	1 interface card	1 interface card
User-accessible Flash slot	No	No	0	-	0
USB 2.0 ports	2	2	2	2	2
Integrated I/O	6 GE copper	6 GE copper	8 GE copper	8 GE copper	8 GE copper
Expansion I/O	6 GE copper or 6 GE SFP	6 GE copper or 6 GE SFP	6 GE copper or 6 GE SFP	6 GE copper or 6 GE SFP	6 GE copper or 6 GE SFP
Dedicated management port	Yes (1 GE)	Yes (1 GE)	Yes (1 GE)	Yes (1 GE)	Yes (1 GE)
Serial ports	1 RJ-45 console	1 RJ-45 console	1 RJ-45 console	1 RJ-45 console	1 RJ-45 console
Solid-state drive	1 slot, 120 GB MLC SED	1 slot, 120 GB MLC SED	1 slot, 120 GB MLC SED	2 slots, RAID 1, 120 GB MLC SED	2 slots, RAID 1, 120 GB MLC SED
Memory	4 GB	8 GB	8 GB	12 GB	16 GB
Minimum system flash	4 GB	8 GB	8 GB	8 GB	8 GB
System bus	Multibus architecture	Multibus architecture	Multibus architecture	Multibus architecture	Multibus architecture
Enivronment
Operating Temperature	-13 to 158ºF (-25 to 70ºC)
Operating Relative Humidity	10 to 90 percent noncondensing
Operating Altitude	Designed and tested for 0 to 15,000 ft (4572 m)		Designed and tested for 0 to 10,000 ft (3050 m)
Acoustic noise	64.2 dBA max	64.2 dBA max	64.2 dBA max	67.9 dBA max	67.9 dBA max
Nonoperating Temperature	-13 to 158ºF (-25 to 70ºC)
Nonoperating Relative Humidity	10 to 90 percent noncondensing
Nonoperating Altitude	Designed and tested for 0 to 15,000 ft (4572 m)		Designed and tested for 0 to 15,000 ft (4572m)
Power - Input (per power supply)
AC range line voltage	100 to 240 VAC
AC normal line voltage	100 to 240 VAC
AC current	4.85A	4.85A	4.85A	5A, 100 to 120V 2.5A, 200 to 240V	5A, 100 to 120V 2.5A, 200 to 240V
AC frequency	50/60 Hz	50/60 Hz	50/60 Hz	50/60 Hz	50/60 Hz
Dual-power supplies	None	None	None	Yes	Yes
DC domestic line voltage	-40.5 to 56 VDC (-48 VDC nominal)
DC international line voltage	-55 to -72 VDC (-60 VDC nominal)
DC current	15A (maximum input)
Power - Output
Steady state	51W	65W	65W	65W	65W
Maximum peak	51W	65W	65W	65W	65W
Maximum heat dissipation	192 Btu/hr	239 Btu/hr	369 Btu/hr	427 Btu/hr	458 Btu/hr
Physical Specifications
Form Factor	1RU, 19-in. rack-mountable
Dimensions (H x W x D)	1.67 x 16.7 x 15.6 in. (4.24 x 42.9 x 39.5 cm)		1.75 x 17.5 x 14.25 in. (4.45 x 20.04 x 36.20 cm)	1.67 x 16.7 x 15.6 in. (4.24 x 42.9 x 39.5 cm)
Weight (with AC power supply)	13.39 lb (6.07 kg)	13.39 lb (6.07 kg)	22.0 lb (10 kg)	16.82 lb (7.63 kg) with single power supply 18.86 lb (8.61 kg) with dual power supply	16.82 lb (7.63 kg) with single power supply 18.86 lb (8.61 kg) with dual power supply
Safety	IEC 60950-1: 2005, 2ndEdition; EN 60950-1: 2006+A11: 2009; UL 60950-1: 2007, 2ndEdition CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1-07, 2nd Edition
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)	CE: EN55022 2006+A1: 2007 Class A; EN55024 1998+A1: 2001+A2: 2003; EN61000-3-2 2009; EN61000-3-3 2008; FCC: CFR 47, Part 15 Subpart B Class A 2010, ANSI C63.4 2009 ICES-003 issue 4 February2004 VCCI: V-3/2011.04 C-TICK: AS/NZS CISPR 22,2009 KC: KN22 & KN24

* Activating more features will change performance
[1] Maximum throughput measured with UDP traffic under ideal conditions.
[2] Multiprotocol = Traffic profile consisting primarily of TCP-based protocols/applications like HTTP, SMTP, FTP, IMAPv4, BitTorrent, and DNS.
[3] PN throughput and sessions count depend on the ASA device configuration and VPN traffic patterns. These elements should be taken into consideration as part of your capacity planning.
[4] Separately licensed feature; includes two SSL licenses with base system.
[5] Higher specifications are associated with the Security Plus license.
[6] Usable space dependent upon system software.
[7] Derate the maximum operating temperature 1.5°C per 1000 ft above sea level.

Platform Support / Compatibility:

Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services include Cisco ASA firewalling, AVC, URL filtering, NGIPS, and AMP. This unique set of capabilities is available on the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series NGFW platforms: Cisco ASA 5506-X, 5506W-X, 5506H-X, 5508-X, 5516-X, 5512-X, 5515-X, 5525-X, 5545-X, 5555-X, and 5585-X with Security Services Processor SSP-10, SSP-20, SSP-40, and SSP-60.

The Cisco ASA 5585-X FirePOWER Services SSP-10, SSP-20, SSP-40, and SSP-60 hardware blades are supported on the Cisco ASA 5585-X platform. Cisco ASA 5585-X SSP-10, SSP-20, SSP-40, and SSP-60 firewalls require Cisco ASA Software Release 9.2.2 and later. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services software is supported on the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series of next-generation midrange security appliances running Cisco ASA Software Release 9.2.2 and later. Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center and Cisco Security Manager are required to manage Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services ASA 5512-X, 5515-X, 5525-X, 5545-X, 5555-X, and 5585-X with Security Services Processor SSP-10, SSP-20, SSP-40, and SSP-60. ASDM V 7.3.x is available on-device to manage single instance deployments of Cisco ASA 5506-X, 5506W-X, 5506H-X, 5508-X, and 5516-X with FirePOWER Services.

Documentation:

Download the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series with FirePOWER Services Datasheet (PDF).