Addressing customers’ needs to combat zero-day attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs), Cisco has broadened its advanced malware protection and data center security offerings. These innovations, spanning the Cisco security portfolio, protect against threats across the full attack continuum – before, during, and after an attack. The innovation to both portfolios, along with today’s acquisition of ThreatGRID, further supports Cisco’s strategy to deliver intelligent cybersecurity for the real world.
The newest updates to Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) make it the first solution to correlate Indications of Compromise (IoC) data between network and endpoint, with integrated threat defense and shared intelligence — providing customers with continuous and pervasive protection against the most advanced threats. AMP also now features Mac OSX support and a private cloud appliance, an on-premises solution that delivers continuous analysis. ThreatGRID’s technology, with its dynamic analysis capabilities both on-premises and in the cloud, complements AMP and allows enhanced aggregation and correlation of data for advanced threat intelligence across the extended network and across Cisco security solutions and services.
“Every day, we are faced with new threats that are becoming more and more innovative in the ways they infiltrate and attack our environment,” said Dan Polly, Vice President, Enterprise Information Security, First Financial Bank. “With AMP, Cisco is enabling us to take a much more mature approach to our advanced threat protection efforts.”
Cisco is also increasing data center and cloud protection with enhancements to its market-leading ASA firewall family, offering superior performance, scalability and flexibility. These enhancements support advances in software-defined networking (SDN) and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) environments.
“Faced with advanced threats that have the ability to disrupt businesses before most tools even take notice, companies today require complete solutions that continuously detect and stop the most sophisticated attacks,” said Christopher Young, Senior Vice President-Security Business Group, Cisco. “With these threats infiltrating environments at the endpoint, in the data center and through the cloud, Cisco’s mission is to provide solutions that move beyond point-in-time threat response to deliver anytime, all-the-time threat-centric protection.”
