June 15, 2005

Informit.com has published a concise article detailing the major new features of Cisco's PIX Firewall 7.0. These features include: improved packet inspection engines for stateless protocols; flexible HTTP security policies; improved management of instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and tunneling applications; deep packet inspection for FTP, ESMTP, and 3G mobile traffic; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routing; firewall support for IPv6; transparent firewall mode; multiple context mode; new active-active and active-passive high availability modes; quality of service and priority queuing; use of access lists on inbound, outbound, or bi-directional traffic; modular policy framework; enhanced firewall management features; intrusion detection and protection using a database of attack signatures; new VPN functionality with stateful failover and many of the major features of the Cisco VPN 3000 concentrator; client-less WebVPN using SSL; and much more.

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The Informit.com Article