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To compete in today's business environment, organizations need to be able to connect anyone to any device, anywhere, and at any time. The varied types of traffic now crossing the network, coupled with an increase in the number and variety of devices accessing the network, bring challenges as well as opportunities.
• Operations must scale to meet increasing connection requirements while remaining open and flexible to allow for the expanding range of devices.
• Organizations are adopting new collaborative applications, which present new security risks.
• Mobile computing devices have made their way to corporate networks, necessitating an extension of existing security policies.
• More applications and services are being pushed to the cloud, causing corporate data to live outside of the enterprise network.
• The ability to span both physical and virtual environments, as well as the computing resources in public and private clouds, with zone and edge security
• The ability to enforce policies based on full contextual understanding of security
• Simplified business policies that can correlate directly between what IT must enforce and the organization's business rules
• Real-time insight into the global threat landscape
• Robust security that provides scalable performance to successfully manage the various volumes and types
of traffic
• A comprehensive analysis of the reputation of network traffic sources that can adversely affect the network
• The ability to provide secure access from a full range of devices-from traditional PCs and Mac-based computers, to smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices-anytime, anywhere
• Cisco SecureX Architecture: The Cisco SecureX Architecture™ brings Cisco® security solutions, products, and services together to deliver enhanced insight, protection, and control to your network. For the data center, the Cisco SecureX Architecture delivers stronger protection with global threat intelligence and contextual awareness to more effectively address the unique security challenges organizations face today.
• Context-aware security: Context-aware security is core to SecureX Architecture, offering deeper insight for more effective security and optimizes efficiency. It extends the capabilities of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), one of the world's most broadly deployed and trusted enterprise firewalls, and combines in-depth local network context from Cisco TrustSec, real-time global threat intelligence from Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO), and unique mobile client insight from Cisco AnyConnect. By determining who is trying to access what type of content, from where, when, and using what application and device, and to correlate both local and global context provides highly effective security. Simplified policies meet IT obligations and business rules to ensure data center protection.
• High-performance security: The Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliance combines a proven firewall with a comprehensive IPS and a high-performance VPN to deliver an effective security solution for today's most dynamic organizations-all in a compact 2-RU footprint. The ASA 5585-X delivers eight times the performance density of competitive appliances, providing unmatched security, reliability, and performance by supporting up to 40 Gbps of real-world firewall throughput; 350,000 connections per second; 10 million concurrent connections; 250 security contexts; and 1000 VLANs.
• Support for virtual environments: The Cisco Virtual Security Gateway for Cisco Nexus 1000V Switches provides trusted multi-tenant access with granular, zone-based, and context-aware security policies. It supports dynamic provisioning of security policies and trust zones during virtual machine (VM) instantiation and promotes mobility-transparent enforcement and monitoring, helping organizations meet industry compliance requirements.
• Identity control and policy enforcement: Cisco TrustSec® helps secure access to networks and networked resources through policy-based access control, identity-aware networking, and data integrity and confidentiality services. Cisco TrustSec helps improve visibility and security across the network by unifying access policy, ensuring that the right user-on the right device, at the right place and time-is connected to the right network with proper authorization. Access policies are implemented across the entire network, helping enterprises improve compliance, strengthen security, and increase operational efficiency.
• Comprehensive threat protection: Cisco combines multiple threat protection technologies to help businesses maintain the highest levels of security while remaining flexible. Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) culls and analyzes information across protocols, technologies, and borders to provide reputation and threat context, then feeds it to Cisco security deployments in real time, dramatically increasing security efficacy. Cisco IPS performs reputation inspection, informed in real time by telemetry from thousands of IPS deployments around the globe, to provide unprecedented precision and the broadest visibility into threats. It then feeds that information back into Cisco SIO for a comprehensive threat intelligence solution.
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