The Cisco ASA 5500 Series IPS Solution provides intrusion prevention, firewall, & VPN in a single, easy-to-deploy platform. Intrusion prevention services enhance firewall protection by looking deeper into the flows to provide protection against threats, including worms, Trojans, distributed denial of service, reconnaissance, & exploits against application & OS vulnerabilities. The intrusion prevention capabilities of the ASA 5500 Series IPS Solution are delivered using a hardware-accelerated intrusion prevention module, the Cisco ASA Advanced Inspection & Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM).