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13 Nov 06 Firewall Upgrade

Our upgraded Firewall is in place and working. It’s a CISCO 5520 Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). The ASA represents an improved technology over our previous firewall. It has the ability to recognize types of threatening behavior in addition to restricting the types of communication it allows through.

The installation began just after 9:00 am Saturday, and services were restored by 11:00 am. Web services were interrupted during that period, including email. Email began coming in around 10:15. None should have been lost.

If you’d like to know more about the ASA, you can read the CISCO product brochure:

http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps6120/c1031/cdccont_0900aecd80285492.pdf

For a very favorable technical review of the ASA (the testing was sponsored by CISCO), see:
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps6120/c1244/cdccont_0900aecd80350d4e.pdf

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