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Small and medium-sized businesses looking beyond $75 DSL/CableModem router/firewalls and wishing to ensure their business is secured, can look to the Cisco PIX Firewall as a stable and reliable firewall platform that is easy on the pocket. Cisco PIX firewalls are great “standard” firewalls for small and medium-sized businesses that want a firewall they can install and forget about, not that we advocate forgetting about your firewall but you might forget you have it installed because they just work!

Cisco is phasing out the PIX models in favor of the newer Adaptive Security Appliance, which means these PIX firewalls can be picked up off eBay and technology refurbishing sites for a fraction of the original cost.

If you purchase a PIX or already have one, then you know it is often hard to answer “What’s Going On”. The logging produced from a Cisco PIX firewall is difficult to manage without some form of management platform regardless of whether the Cisco’s new web-based configuration / monitoring interface is installed.