Cisco ASA5508-K9 Network Security/Firewall Appliance

hello and welcome to Cisco aasa training 101 my name is Don Crawley I'm from sound training net we're the Seattle Washington based provider of accelerated training and publisher of learning resources for IT professionals this time we're doing Cisco AAS a security appliance initial set up it's based on chapter one in my book The Accidental administrator Cisco a sa security appliance the book is not required for the video but if you'd like to get a copy to follow along it's available through Amazon and other resellers or you can visit our website at www.traknetpm.com firewall what we want to do is we want to limit where connections can be initiated and that's the important concept here so a firewall allows your internal users to initiate a connection to say the public internet maybe a website or a mail server or FTP server something like that but it prohibits Internet users from being abl