Marketing description

The Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) is a completely reimagined virtual security solution. It supports both traditional tiered data center deployments and the fabric-based deployments of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) environments. The ASAv supports consistent, transparent security across physical, virtual, application-centric, SDN, and cloud environments.

Key selling points

• Full ASA feature set
• Adaptable provisioning
• Elastic scalability
• Security and service virtualization
• Independent operation
• Flexible configuration and management
• Fully independent solution
• Fully integrated ACI security
• A single point of control

Product features

• Fully independent solution
  The ASAv brings full firewall capabilities to virtualized environments to help secure data center traffic and multitenant architectures. Because it has been optimized for data center environments, the ASAv supports vSwitches. The ASAv can therefore be deployed in Cisco, hybrid, and even non Cisco data centers, significantly reducing administrative overhead and improving flexibility and operational efficiency. In any data center environment, the Cisco ASAv allows critical security functions to dynamically scale to protect assets as business demands change.
• Fully integrated ACI security
  The ASAv has been fully and transparently integrated into the fabric of the next-generation ACI data center architecture. This approach removes the limitations of traditional network-oriented security solutions, allowing for significantly streamlined provisioning.
• A single point of control
  For ACI deployments, the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) provides a single point of control for both network and security management. It can provision ASAv security as a service, manage policy, and monitor the entire environment for a unified view of the entire distributed infrastructure.