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Cisco ISA500 Series Integrated Security Appliance Administration Guide
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Getting Started
This chapter provides the product overview and installation instruction to help you
to install the security appliance, and describes the default settings and some
basic configuration tasks to help you to begin configuring your security appliance.
It includes the following sections:
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Getting Started with the Configuration Utility, page 23
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About the Default Settings, page 25
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Performing Common Configuration Tasks, page 27
Introduction
The Cisco ISA500 Series Integrated Security Appliances are a set of Unified
Threat Management (UTM) security appliances that provide business class
security gateway solutions with zone-based firewall, site-to-site and remote
access VPN (including Cisco IPSec VPN and SSL VPN) support, and Internet
threat protection with multiple UTM security services. The ISA550W and
ISA570W include 802.11b/g/n access point capabilities.
The following table lists the available model numbers to help you become familiar
with your security appliance.