TCP/IP Network, Transport, and Application Layers

Read the following scenario and answer the questions that follow:

You are building a small bank in Destin, Florida, and are trying to decide which protocols to deploy in this enterprise. Your brother-in-law, who has been in the IT field for some time, recommends Cisco due to their excellent reputation and market saturation. He particularly points you to their Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) line of appliances. This line of network security devices succeeded three existing lines of popular Cisco products:

• Cisco PIX, which provided firewall and network address translation (NAT) functions
• Cisco IPS 4200 Series, which worked as an intrusion prevention systems(IPS)Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators, which provided virtual private networking (VPN)

Question 1 : What features of this product line do you feel will be instrumental in deploying your network in this increasingly hacker-intrusive network environment?

Question 2 : Your brother-in-law also states that you need to make sure that you always use TCP and not User Datagram protocol (UDP) in all your transactions. Is this really possible? Explain your answer.

Please Answer Each question with 4 or 5 sentences.