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Cisco is showcasing significant new capabilities in
its security portfolio at Cisco Security Summit 2007, an annual
conference targeted at IT and security professionals in the country.
The enhancements simplify the ability for organizations to control
and contain information security threats in a more coordinated,
flexible fashion across networks while streamlining management and
protecting confidential communications to remote users. Cisco is
showcasing significant new capabilities in its security portfolio at
Cisco Security Summit 2007, an annual conference targeted at IT and
security professionals in the country. The enhancements simplify the
ability for organizations to control and contain information
security threats in a more coordinated, flexible fashion across
networks while streamlining management and protecting confidential
communications to remote users.
The new capabilities mark the latest evolution of Cisco's
Self-Defending Network – a comprehensive framework incorporating
various endpoint and network security products into an integrated,
collaborative and adaptive security solution for organizations of
all sizes. The increasing danger of information security threats –
both from their profit motive and impact to productivity – make
collaborative threat control and protection of confidential
communications more than just an IT requirement. It is a
mission-critical business requirement.
"Organizations today cannot rely on standalone or
one-dimensional security products anymore. They need to unify
individual security components – from network and endpoint devices
to centralized analysis and management tools – into an integrated
security system. That system should constantly coordinate protection
wherever threats extend. Collaborative security allows organizations
to extend network availability, share information and improve
operational efficiency with greater peace of mind," said Luichi
Robles, country manager for Cisco Philippines.
The collective enhancements involve Cisco's Intrusion Prevention
System (IPS), Cisco Security Agent (CSA), Cisco Security Mitigation
Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS), Cisco Security Manager (CSM)
and Cisco's Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network (SSL VPN).
Four of the products, the Cisco IPS 6.0, CSA 5.2, CS-MARS 4.3, and
CSM 3.1 –combine to coordinate visibility, network-wide
protection, simplified policy management and dynamic threat
mitigation in order to maintain business continuity.
These releases strengthen Cisco's approach to coordinated defense by
extending beyond the typical standalone nature of these product
classes and establishing a vital relationship between the network
and its endpoints. This helps ensure that all potential entry points
can be protected in a coordinated fashion.
For example, information-sharing between IPS 6.0 and CSA 5.2
minimizes false positives and helps enable IPS appliances to block
threats before they proliferate. IPS 6.0 also features adaptive
"day zero" anomaly detection and behavioral analysis that
identify worms and other malicious activity by searching for suspect
network traffic patterns, and it integrates with third-party
scanners to enrich threat analysis used to take protective actions.
Other adaptive features include the ability to dynamically adjust
"risk ratings" based on attack relevance and to deploy
automated event and action filters that correspond to specific
operating systems.
In addition to its advances in collaborative threat-control, Cisco
announced a new wave of SSL VPN enhancements to the software that
drives its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) family of products,
which offer integrated firewall, IPS, anti-malware, and VPN
functionality. The latest ASA 8.0 software raises the bar for SSL
VPN solutions, complementing Cisco's proven IPsec solutions with
features that lower IT's cost of ownership even as organizations
become more distributed and their users more mobile and remote.
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