Cisco routers provide integrated firewall and intrusion detection functionality for the perimeter of the network.

  • available for a wide range of Cisco IOS software-based routers
  • offers security and policy enforcement for both internal to internal and internal to external connections

The Firewall Feature set:

  • available as a security-specific add-on option for existing IOS software
  • adds enhanced security capabilities such as authentication, encryption, and fail-over
  • provides application-based filtering (context-based access control), defense against network attacks, per-user authentication and authorization, and real-time alerts.