In order to guard IT assets, Firewall for a longtime have been operating on the pattern of offering deep packet assessment. But, the deep packet inspection has frequently lagged context awareness, a vital aspect. Cisco at present is progressing on its program of context awareness with the ASA CX enhancement release for its firewall hardware portfolio.

The ASA CX is the overall secure initiative of Cisco, initially publicized a year back. Secure X is now broadened with improved abilities of TrustSec security architecture of Cisco.

The manager of Security solution team of Cisco said that the fact on TrustSec is, that they are moving in depth into the system and their goal is to make TrustSec as a persistent service on the network. He further added that the capability of the network is reinforced to a great extent and is sheltered against dangers.

In 2007, the TrustSec plan was initially announced by Cisco. The general plan is to make TrustSec an assortment of NAC (Network Access Control) facilitating recognition and safety control for all machines on a system.

Cisco is offering an innovative hardware and software for the arrangement of ASA firewall, which constructs on TrustSec to offer more context responsiveness. The modernization of ASA CX software is accessible for the high end ASA 5585 appliance of Cisco, and is integrated on a latest sequence of mid-range ASA machines.

With the ASA CX, Cisco can perform wide categorization of Web based function like Face book, Skype and also mini functions that occurs within Face book. For instance, the ASA CX can facilitate a customer to see a videotape on Facebook; however it prevents admission to Farmville.

The Cisco official elaborated that by going in-depth they can organize on how customers interrelate with functions. For instance, a consumer can be prevented from files uploading to Face book or file transferring with Yahoo instant messenger.

The ASA platform is regarded in the business as NGFW (next generation fire wall) as it offers IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) facilities.