Cisco Systems. Securing Networks with Cisco Routers and Switches. Volume 3. Student Guide

Cisco Systems, 2007. — 218 p.Adaptive Threat Defense (ATD) helps to minimize network security risks by dynamically addressing threats at multiple layers, enabling tighter control of network traffic, endpoints, users, and applications. The key components of ATD include better coordinated threat mitigation through anti-X defenses, application security, and network control and containment. In this module, you will be introduced to some of these key components of the Cisco IOS Firewall feature set, which includes Cisco IOS Classic Firewall, zone-based policy firewall, Cisco IOS Firewall authentication proxy, and Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).