Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, ASA) is Cisco’s line of network security devices introduced in May 2005. Cisco ASA has become one of the most widely used firewall/VPN solutions for small to medium businesses. Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Virtual brings Cisco’s next-generation firewall functionalities to virtualized environments, enabling consistent security policies to follow workloads across your physical, virtual, and cloud environments, and between clouds.