The Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) is one of the most implemented security solutions found in enterprise networks. Cisco offers an entire series of firewalls that range from small office solutions to very large enterprise solutions. It is because of its commonality that in many businesses an IT Professional would do well to be familiar with the product and some of the most essential configurations. This series is designed to help an IT Professional to see how to configure many of the features in the ASA through the GUI interface, the ASDM. This will provide an introduction to the appliance and guidance on some of most used features for any environment.