Create a Stronger Defense Against Threats
Each day, you reinvent how you conduct business by adopting Internet-based business models. But Internet connectivity without appropriate security can compromise the gains you hope to make. In today's connected environment, outbreaks spread globally in a matter of minutes, which means your security systems must react instantly.
Maintaining security using tactical, point solutions introduces complexity and inconsistency, but integrating security throughout the network protects the information that resides on it.
Three components are critical to effective information security:
- A secure network platform with integrated security to which you can easily add advanced security technologies and services
- Threat control services focused on antivirus protection and policy enforcement that continuously monitor network activity and prevent or mitigate problems
- Secure communication services that maintain the privacy and confidentiality of sensitive data, voice, video, and wireless communications while cost-effectively extending the reach of your network
The Self-Defending Network
The Cisco Self-Defending Network is a strategic approach to security that uses the network to identify, prevent, and mitigate threats from internal and external sources. Its goal is to simplify the security environment through tight integration and increased end-to-end visibility.
All components of the network play a part in ensuring a secure networked environment in three ways:
- Throughout the infrastructure, security is built in, so every element acts as a point of defense.
- Network and security components cooperate on policy enforcement.
- The network automatically recognizes and responds to new types of threats as they arise.
- Lifecycle services for security support the strategic planning, design, implementation, operation, and optimization of network security services and technologies.
