Cisco announces new embedded security solutions
Networking specialist Cisco is announcing new products to provide embedded enterprise security from the data center out to endpoints, branch offices and the cloud.
The company used this week's Cisco Live conference to announce that it's adding more sensors to increase visibility; more control points to strengthen enforcement; and pervasive, advanced threat protection to reduce time-to-detection and time-to-response, limiting the impact of attacks.
Cisco expects the Internet of Everything (IoE) to be worth $19 trillion over the next decade while the cybercrime sector could be worth up to $1 trillion.
Cisco's solutions include endpoint protection using its AnyConnect 4.1 VPN client which allows customers to easily deploy and significantly expand their threat protection to VPN-enabled endpoints to continuously and retrospectively guard against advanced malware.
Branch office protection is provided by FirePOWER Services solutions for Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISR), offering centrally managed Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) where a dedicated security appliance may not be feasible.
Cisco will also add embedded multiple security technologies into the network infrastructure to provide broad threat visibility, to identify users and devices associated with anomalies, threats and misuse of networks and applications.
It's integrated StealthWatch with its Identity Services Engine to spot and block suspicious network devices and added NetFlow monitoring to offer greater insights into network traffic.
"To protect against today's threats and increase agility for organizations to seize new growth opportunities and implement new technologies, security must be pervasively embedded across the entire network infrastructure," says David Goeckeler, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Security Business Group. "By integrating 'Security Everywhere' throughout the extended network and through cloud-delivered services, Cisco is protecting a wider array of attack vectors. This also provides enterprises and service providers with the confidence that they have the continuous and retrospective visibility and control to support new technologies and business opportunities in the Internet of Everything and the Digital Economy".
You can find out more about Cisco's ability to secure extended networks on the company's blog.
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