San Francisco, Nov. 3, 2016: Cisco has introduced a new approach to security in the Internet of Things (IoT) field, demonstrating it at the Cisco Partner Summit, the company’s annual partner conference held recently.
‘Cisco AMP for Endpoints’ combined prevention, detection and response to simplify endpoint security, allowing customers to ditch prevention-only strategies. By leveraging the scale and power of the Cloud and Cisco’s threat-centric security architecture, AMP for Endpoints allowed customers to see and stop more threats, faster.
Cisco has dubbed it a “new approach to endpoint security”. It said a secure foundation was essential for today’s digital business models. Yet, organisations were struggling to protect mobile users, desktops, laptops and servers against advanced malware attacks.
This was because most of these organisations were focused on a prevention-only strategy based on legacy solutions that were not effective in defending against modern malware., said the IT major. Some organisations then layered additional products onto the endpoint to gain visibility and respond to threats that had evaded these legacy solutions. This created “significant operational complexity and inefficiency”.
The fact that it took enterprises, on average, over 100 days to detect a threat in their own environment, was clear indication that they needed a new approach to endpoint security, Cisco said.
Cisco AMP for Endpoints, by combining prevention, detection and response in one SaaS-deployed, Cloud-managed solution, reduced the complexity and stopped more threats. It got actionable intelligence into the hands of organisations faster, giving them an edge against today’s attackers.
New AMP for Endpoints offered:
- Next-generation prevention that combined proven and advanced protection capabilities to stop more threats – both known and emerging malware
- With the latest global threat intelligence from Cisco Talos at its backbone, AMP for Endpoints also offered built-in sandboxing technology to quarantine and analyse unknown files
- Greater visibility and faster detection through continuous monitoring and shared analytics to detect stealth attacks
- More effective response based on deep visibility and a detailed recorded history of malware’s behavior over time – where it came from, where it has been, and what it has been doing.
From the network to the endpoint to the Cloud, Cisco’s threat-centric security architecture ensured that customers got more from existing security investments, increasing capability while decreasing complexity.
New software suites radically simplify advanced infrastructure security
Cisco said it was also introducing a way for customers to simplify how they bought and deployed its security software and gained more value from its architectural approach. Cisco was extending its successful software licensing program, Cisco ONE Software, into advanced security, which gave customers a simple and flexible way to consume Cisco’s software capabilities for infrastructure. Already, over 14,000 customers, including 91 percent of the Fortune 100 companies, had purchased Cisco ONE Software.
Cisco announced the availability of three advanced security software suites.
Threat Defense for Data Center
Threat Defense for WAN and Edge
Policy and Threat Defense for Access
The software suites were customised with key security products and services for each domain.
While Cisco ONE has traditionally been made available through perpetual licensing models, Cisco ONE Advanced Security was being offered via subscription. With subscriptions, customers could buy the capabilities they needed, when and how they needed them. This would enable a more agile approach to security and helps accelerate the deployment of new capabilities.
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