EN - NEWS from the Web - ASA 8.2 and IPS for ASA 5505

Well you may have heard from several other blogs and news sites that Cisco announced some new interesting features for the ASA Firewalls. Among some other the key things that are interesting for me (personal) are

ASA 8.2 main feature
Basing on the ASA Q+A this ASA Image should be available already but my CCO account shows nothing for the ASA to download. Hope that this image will be available soon for test deployment.
Some features that really are worth a second look.
First to mention is Botnet Filtering that by design should prevent traffic from a already infected machine to the Botnets.
Interesting sounds the TCP State bypass but this will need some hands on to check :)
Some drawback, ASA 8.2 is an ASA only image so no support in PEMU

ASA 5505 IPS
I´ve heard rumors about it and the empty slot was obvious for some add on. Well now you can have a look at the brand new Cisco ASA 5505 IPS module. I think this is a great feature for the ASA 5505, I know some customers that are looking for this feature and I hope that the market accepts the IPS.

Cisco Q&A about the new features and the ASA 5505 IPS + more
ASA 8.2 Image Features

Thanks for the information to Jamey Heary at Networkworld

Cheers
NWG