Security appliance

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Cisco Pix 535 Firewall
Cisco Pix 535 Firewall

Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, e-mail spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. The most common of which is a network firewall that is an independent computer server appliance running specialized OS for this function.[1]

An example of a security appliance would be the CISCO Systems PIX firewall.

[edit] References

  1. ^ CISCO Pix Security at a Glance, CISCO Systems, Accessed: June 14, 2007.
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