Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls

Implementing Authentication

In this book, you use ASDM to implement authentication on the ASA/PIX Security Appliance. The following list of authentication tasks are performed:

• Secure Telnet security appliance access

• Secure SSH security appliance access

• Secure ASDM/HTTPS security appliance access

• Secure inbound and outbound web users (optional)

• Authorize security appliance users

Securing Access to the Security Appliance

Now that you have a basic understanding of both authentication and its importance, you can start ASDM and follow these procedures to deploy authentication.

This step-by-step procedure leverages off of the configuration work that you have already done on your ASA/PIX Security Appliance in Chapter 5, “Deploying Secure Internet Connectivity,” ...