Information security is a business concern for all organisations. With security threats increasing in number and sophistication, businesses want to gain protection, control, and visibility over their security systems, preventing incidents and threats that disrupt productivity, impact customer relationships, and erode profits. Government regulations concerning the protection of information also add to the growing emphasis on security.

The Cisco Self-Defending Network protects an organisation by identifying, preventing, and adapting to threats from both internal and external sources. With this protection, companies are better able to take advantage of the intelligence in their network resources—thus improving business processes and cutting costs. The Cisco Self-Defending Network identifies, prevents, and adapts to threats from both internal and external sources.

Cisco provides the most comprehensive range of integrated security solutions to protect organisations of all sizes from theft. The Cisco Self-Defending Network integrates security intelligence, protects corporate assets, and enhances the value of an organisations existing network infrastructure.

BENEFITS OF THE CISCO SELF-DEFENDING NETWORK

• Cost savings through reducing downtime due to virus / worm attacks
• Compliance with corporate security policy and industry regulations
• Peace of mind that company assets are secure
• Solution rather than individual products integrated across the network
• Improves flexibility and simplicity in network protection
• Improves IT management and efficiency
• Provides the ability to recognise suspicious activity, identify threats, and respond to attacks in a coordinated way
• Protects against users with insecure or infected devices
• Improves network uptime by responding to known and unknown threats in real time
• Effectively enforces security polices companywide

Technologies and Products Associated with the Cisco Self-Defending Network

Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) with stateful firewall, VPN, IPS, and antivirus
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance is a modular platform   that provides the next generation of security and VPN services. The ASA can be specified with the following options:

• Firewall Edition
• VPN Edition
• IPS Edition
• Anti-X Edition

www.cisco.com/go/asa

Day zero protection with Cisco Security Agent (CSA)
Cisco Security Agent software protects server and desktop computing systems by identifying threats and preventing malicious behaviour. It mitigates new and evolving threats without requiring reconfigurations or emergency patch updates, providing robust protection with reduced operational costs.

www.cisco.com/go/csa

Access control with Network Admission Control (NAC)
Network Admission Control (NAC), a set of technologies and solutions built on an industry initiative led by Cisco, uses the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources, thereby limiting damage from emerging security threats. Customers using NAC can allow network access only to compliant and trusted endpoint devices (PCs, servers, and PDAs, for example) and can restrict the access of noncompliant devices.        

www.cisco.com/go/nac

Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS)
The Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) recognises and correlates real network attacks and then defines how to stop them. Free more network resources by reducing false positives and simplifying audit compliance.

www.cisco.com/go/mars

Cisco Security Manager
Cisco Security Manager is a powerful but very easy-to-use solution to centrally provision all aspects of device configurations and security policies for Cisco firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). The solution is effective for managing even small networks consisting of fewer than ten devices, but also scales to efficiently manage large-scale networks composed of thousands of devices. Scalability is achieved through intelligent    policy-based management techniques that can simplify administration.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6498/index.html

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