Cisco Firewall HA – SECURITY CONTEXT

Cisco Firewall HA – SECURITY CONTEXT

Technology: Firewall  Area: High Availability Vendor: Cisco Software: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Platform: Cisco ASA 5505, 5500, 5525 Description:  The security context is a virtual instance of firewall which are separated from each other by default. Physical ASA appliance is divided into contexts creating many virtual firewalls. In typical implementations, contexts are mapped into VLANs or VRFs to the rest […]

Cisco Firewall HA – ACTIVE STANDBY Failover

Technology: Firewall  Area: High Availability Vendor: Cisco Software: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Platform: Cisco ASA 5505, 5500, 5525 Description:  Active-Standby failover means that two units are working in an active-standby configuration where the active state is always present on one of the failover pairs. The other one is standby. Standby has an identical configuration as active and […]