- Cisco Security Cloud Services: This unique approach for
delivering security as a service ties together services from multiple
networks and applications, bringing together the cloud and the enterprise
network for highly secure collaborative communications. The Cisco Security
Cloud supports the recently announced Cisco IronPort® Hosted Email
Security Services as well as Global Correlation, a powerful new
technique that powers security services integrated into Cisco's broad range
of security offerings.
- Cisco IPS Sensor Software Version 7.0: Global Correlation
for intrusion prevention system (IPS) harnesses the power of Cisco Security
Intelligence Operations, a powerful threat-defense ecosystem, to achieve
unprecedented threat-protection efficacy. Cisco turns global threat data
captured from a massive footprint of security devices into dynamic updates
and actionable intelligence, such as "reputation" scores, and pushes that
intelligence out to a business's network security infrastructure for
protective action. By incorporating Global Correlation, Cisco IPS 7.0 is up
to two times as effective in stopping malicious attacks, in a shorter
amount of time, than traditional signature-only IPS technologies.
- Cisco ASA 5500 Series 8.2 Software: This offering in the
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances family is designed to enhance end-to-end
security for offices of all sizes, improving threat mitigation and enabling
companies to more securely connect, communicate and conduct business. With
a new Botnet Traffic Filter for identifying infected clients, IPS
availability for small offices, and increased clientless remote-access
capabilities, Cisco now offers support for the widest range of platforms,
operating systems and endpoints in the industry.
- Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter: The new Botnet Traffic Filter
enables Cisco ASA 5500 Series appliances to more accurately identify
infected clients using information from Cisco Security Intelligence
Operations: -- more than 1,000 threat-collection servers that receive
information from more than 700,000 sensors and 500 third-party feeds. With
improved threat intelligence, customers can more accurately identify
infected clients and streamline their operations so that security
administrators can focus on the most challenging threats.
- Cisco Remote Access and VPN Enhancements: Cisco ASA Software
Release 8.2 expands remote access capabilities with next-generation
tunneling and session persistence through Cisco AnyConnect Essentials for
corporate and mobile users, thus covering the widest range of platforms,
operating systems, and endpoints in the industry. Support for the Cisco
Virtual Office solution has also been added to the Cisco ASR 1000, allowing
this wide-area network aggregation platform to also act as the head-end
device for Cisco Virtual Office deployments capable of supporting several
thousand remote clients. The Cisco ASR 1000 also now supports GET VPN,
allowing instant provisioning of security services and delivering
high-performance, highly secure any-to-any connectivity for up to 10,000
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) tunnels at up to 7 gigabits per second
of throughput, enabling customers to prioritize and deliver data flows
efficiently to multiple network addresses.
- Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter: The new Botnet Traffic Filter
enables Cisco ASA 5500 Series appliances to more accurately identify
infected clients using information from Cisco Security Intelligence
Operations: -- more than 1,000 threat-collection servers that receive
information from more than 700,000 sensors and 500 third-party feeds. With
improved threat intelligence, customers can more accurately identify
infected clients and streamline their operations so that security
administrators can focus on the most challenging threats.
- Cisco SAFE: A
security reference architecture that provides prescriptive validated design
guides to help organizations plan, design and deploy security solutions
across the network, such as campus offices, the Internet edge, branches and
data centers. These blueprints provide defense-in-depth guidance and best
practices for securing data and transactions as they traverse the network.
- Cisco
Information Technology Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (IT GRC)
Security Assessment Services: These services help organizations
establish a single program for reducing information security risk and the
cost of compliance, by aligning business and technology strategies.
Businesses are better able to balance the need for collaboration and
information sharing with privacy and information control and to manage
disparate security and compliance programs that often lead to inefficiency,
duplicated effort, coverage gaps and higher costs. With the Cisco IT GRC
Security Assessment Services, organizations can establish a common control
framework: a single, unified set of security controls that efficiently meet
compliance obligations and protect organizations from threats. The services
provide a comprehensive assessment of a business's security policies
and security architecture and map them against the requirements of the
common control framework to identify gaps and make prioritized
recommendations for resolving those gaps.
- Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager, Security Technology
business unit, Cisco - "In today's changing world, businesses require a
security strategy that accounts for the physical, virtual, mobile and
global aspects of their business. Our vision for security is based on a
balance of protection and enablement, which integrates security from the
network through to the endpoint and the user. Security needs to capture the
latest threat intelligence to mitigate shifting threats. This combination
enables businesses to collaborate with greater confidence when engaging
employees, partners and customers."
- James Small, security practice manager, Analysts International
Corp. - "Our customers are working in a world today where collaborating
across the Internet is the norm. While this open collaboration is driving
innovation and business, it is also exploited by ever-expanding crime
syndicates with their own increasing revenue targets. Working within the
IT framework of driving productivity while trying to contain the risks of
collaborative networking, security professionals are looking for better
tools. Cisco's announcement today answers this call with security solutions
that not only enable collaboration but scale to unprecedented new levels of
threat detection and mitigation by using these same collaborative
technologies to build what is essentially the world's largest and smartest
honeynet. We are very excited to see Global Correlation being built into
Cisco's IPS solution. This integrates Cisco's elaborate threat intelligence
into an enforceable policy-based system with real-time telemetry
collaboration and response."
- Dustin Cornelius, computer systems analyst, Southern Co. -
"Protection and compliance are the main objectives for our department. And
in today's networked world, threats are rapidly growing in number and
sophistication, and compliance is an ever-growing challenge. With Cisco, we
have an integrated security solution that provides strong security
architecture at lower operational costs but can also help meet compliance
mandates. With the new offerings announced today, we are glad to see Cisco
adapt its security solutions to address the evolving threats and help
protect our business."
- All products are available now. For more information visit: http://www.cisco.com /go/security
- Marie Hattar, vice president, Cisco Network Systems and Security
Solutions Marketing
- Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager, Cisco Security
Technology business unit and David Knight, director of product management,
Cisco WebEx
- Ambika Gadre, director of product management, Cisco Security Technology
business unit
- James Small, security practice manager, Analysts International
Corporation on Global Correlation
- Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (Cisco ASA)
- Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (Cisco IPS)
- Press Release: Cisco
Strengthens Commitment to Business Collaboration by Extending Enhanced
Software-as-a-Service Applications to the Enterprise
Network
- Cisco Security
Center
- Visit the Cisco blog, The
Platform
- Cisco Security Intelligence Operations - Underlying all Cisco products
and services is Cisco Security Intelligence Operations, which aggregates
information from tightly integrated data derived from multiple Cisco
devices and services to continuously assess and correlate threats and
vulnerabilities. Sources for Cisco Security Intelligence Operations data
include Cisco's worldwide Threat Operations Centers, Cisco Security Remote
Management Services, the SensorBase Network, Cisco Security IntelliShield
Alert Manager, Cisco Intrusion Prevention Systems and a variety of other
Cisco functions, including Cisco Security Research and Operations, Cisco
Security Incident Response, the Corporate Security Programs Office, and
Global Policy and Government Affairs.
Contact Information: Cisco Press Contact: David Oro Cisco 707-558-8585 daoro@cisco.com Industry Analyst Contact: Todd Hanson Cisco 408-853-8255 todhanso@cisco.com Investor Relations Contact: Marilyn Mora Cisco 408-527-7452 marilmor@cisco.com
