The Cisco Firewall Specialist certification training recognizes security professionals who have attained specialized in-depth expertise and proven knowledge of the recommended best practices in designing, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting network security solutions using the Cisco ASA adaptive security appliance technologies. The Cisco ASA adaptive security appliance is a best-of-class security appliance, widely deployed, and in use at leading enterprises and service providers worldwide.

The Cisco Firewall Security Specialist certification is recognized as the benchmark security product certification for engineers, consultants, and architects who configure advanced Cisco firewalls and virtual private network (VPN) solutions, including advanced access control, advanced application inspections and controls, IP Security (IPsec) remote access VPN, clientless Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) remote access VPN, Cisco Any Connect full-tunnel SSL remote-access VPN, IPsec site-to-site VPNs, high availability, and failover features.

Cisco Firewall Security Specialist training is conducted using real Cisco equipment.