All-in-One Security for Your Small Business
Secure your business network with a single, flexible, affordable solution.
In today’s connected world, businesses that preserve the integrity of their network gain a powerful advantage. When a company can protect itself against intruders, spam, phishing, and other viral hazards, it avoids the costly pitfalls of other, less secure networks. The Cisco® SA 500 Series Security Appliances, part of the Cisco Small Business Pro Series, are designed to help small businesses do just that. By guarding every component of your network—at the mobile, gateway, server, and client levels—the Cisco SA 500 Series helps ensure that productivity never gets interrupted and business can keep moving.
As the worldwide leader in networking and communications, Cisco is dedicated to empowering small businesses like yours. The Cisco SA 500 Series is a simple, flexible solution that fits neatly into your network—and your business strategy. By fortifying your network with the Cisco SA 500 Series, you gain more than absolute security and transparent connectivity for your network. You lay a foundation for robust business performance, now and in the future.
The Cisco SA 500 Series provides:
• Improved business resiliency: Prevent disruption of business-critical applications and services due to security breaches by implementing a robust business-grade firewall, along with support for IPS, email and web security.
• Enhanced authentication security for remote users: Prevent unauthorized access to your business network by using hardware- or software-generated one-time-use passwords.
• Increased employee productivity: Prevent the loss of employee productivity by protecting your network against spam, spyware, and inappropriate web browsing, using the optional Cisco ProtectLink Gateway.
• Reduced IT costs: Free up IT support resources and avoid the costly process of cleaning up infections due to spyware, viruses, and other malware by preventing them from occurring.
• Easy-to-deploy remote access: Allow employees and partners to quickly and easily connect to the business with SSL VPN.
• Improved business efficiency: Reduce costs associated with deployment, ongoing management, and monitoring of the security solution by using a single, easy-to-install, easy-to-use solution.
• Decreased liability: Reduce the company’s exposure to liability due to compromised data or inadequate corporate controls by implementing comprehensive access control and threat protection services in a single device.
• Peace of mind: Get maximum value from your Cisco solution with the Cisco Small Business Pro Service.
Cisco SA 520 Core Features
Secure remote access to business information with a built-in stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall and VPN capabilities.
Increased security of remote access: With support for optional VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP), the Cisco SA 500 Series provides two-factor authentication and one-time-use password access control.
Lower costs associated with deployment and management based on a single, easy-to-install, easy-to-use solution.
Prevent security breaches from email threats or malicious websites that could lead to disruption of business-critical applications and services.
Increased employee productivity by helping prevent spam, spyware, and inappropriate web browsing with the optional Trend Micro ProtectLink Gateway.
Easy deployment and management: The embedded Security Appliance Configuration Utility offers comprehensive configuration and monitoring of all the services in a single application.
Affordable service coverage: The highest level of performance and reliability to keep your business running smoothly.
Cisco SA 520 Video
Cisco SA 520 Technical Specifications
Cisco SA 500 Series Security Appliance Models and Specifications
SA 520
SA 520W
SA 540
SKU
SA520-K9
SA520W-K9
SA540-K9
Ports
Stateful packet inspection throughput*
200 Mbps
200 Mbps
300 Mbps
Firewall and email and web security throughput*
200 Mbps
200 Mbps
300 Mbps
Connections
15,000
15,000
40,000
Rules
100
100
100
Schedules
Yes
Yes
Yes
IPS
Yes
Yes
Yes
Peer-to-peer and IM blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
VPN
Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES)/ Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) VPN throughput*
65 Mbps
65 Mbps
85 Mbps
IPsec VPN tunnels
50 max
50 max
100 max
SSL VPN tunnels
2 seats included; license required to upgrade to 25 seats (max)
2 seats included; license required to upgrade to 25 seats (max)
50 seats (max) included
Dead peer detection
Yes
Yes
Yes
IPsec Network Address Translation (NAT) traversal
Yes
Yes
Yes
NetBIOS broadcast over VPN
Yes
Yes
Yes
Cisco ProtectLink Gateway
URL filtering
80+ categories
80+ categories
80+ categories
Web threat protection
Yes
Yes
Yes
Antispam protection
Yes
Yes
Yes
Virus patterns
More than 3 million
More than 3 million
More than 3 million
Spyware patterns
More than 420,000
More than 420,000
More than 420,000
Wireless
802.11b/g/n
No
Yes
No
2 x 3 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO)
No
Yes
No
2.4 GHz
No
Yes
No
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) quality of service (QoS)
No
Yes
No
Unscheduled automatic power save delivery (U-APSD) (WMM Power Save [WMM-PS])
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