hello respectfully, you are right about routing, Cisco ASA is a best firewall that support routing. however, in best practices offer: do not use firewall as router and also is better to use firewall as transparent mode. because technically firewall designed for access…

For recommending some security appliance like IPS, more information is necessary. The information like: • What company needed to protect? • How many concurrent connection needed? • How many new connection per second you need? • How much bandwidth used by servers behind…