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Cisco announce a new context-aware security enforcement across its security portfolio

février 2011 par Marc Jacob


Cisco continues to invest in addressing the rapidly changing security needs of businesses with the announcement of new context-aware security enforcement across its security portfolio.

The new borderless organization dramatically changed the definition of how, when and where people work, causing a need to redefine the way security solutions are built and deployed. Driving this change is a new wave of mobility, virtualization and cloud technologies that forced IT security administrators to deal with a multi-dimensional problem and rethink how security is implemented and enforced.

To enable business without borders, Cisco is introducing a new highly distributed and context-aware security architecture that manages security scanning enforcement elements like firewalls, Web proxies and intrusion prevention sensors with a higher-level policy language that is context-aware to accommodate business needs. These next-generation scanning elements are independent of the physical infrastructure and can be deployed as appliances, modules and cloud services. They know exactly who a user is, what role that user plays in the organization and whether or not that user should be allowed access and are better suited to address today’s security challenges.

Highlights of this announcement :

Cisco SecureX Architecture : A next-generation, context-aware security architecture that includes :

Context-aware security enforcement elements that are independent of physical infrastructure and can be deployed in a highly distributed way.

A new context-aware policy language that helps manage the context-aware enforcement elements.

Cisco AnyConnect tethering any device, anytime, from anywhere, into the security enforcement fabric.

Virtual and cloud platforms that attach to Cisco’s virtual data center switching capabilities.

Cisco Security Intelligence Operations that provides global context and threat intelligence.

Comprehensive, extensible APIs that allow Cisco’s own management systems and partners to plug in and complete the security ecosystem.

New Context-Aware Capabilities for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) : The Cisco ASA will be the first to offer full context-aware firewalling and policy enforcement. By combining local context using Cisco TrustSec, global context from Cisco SIO and mobile insight from AnyConnect, the Cisco ASA allows businesses to gain visibility into their network infrastructure, provide better security and create streamlined policies that correspond to business rules. Users, applications, data, reputation, devices, posture, threats, destinations, sources and locations are some of the components of the multi-faceted context that the Cisco ASA will deliver. These will allow customers to extend their existing trusted firewall infrastructure to be consistent with the dynamic needs of their businesses and employees.

AnyConnect Client Telemetry for Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) : AnyConnect 3.0 adds real-time client-based threat telemetry to Cisco SIO to bolster an existing footprint of more than 700,000 network and content security appliances. Telemetry from existing Cisco security services for email, Web, intrusion prevention, firewall and cloud security services enable powerful global context and threat intelligence, ensuring fast and accurate protection against a full range of malicious activity. With a footprint of more than 150 million AnyConnect and legacy VPN clients, this represents a huge step forward in the visibility and actionable threat intelligence that Cisco SIO can provide.

Other AnyConnect 3.0 Highlights : AnyConnect 3.0 now supports Web security services delivered via Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliances and Cisco ScanSafe, the industry’s leading cloud security service. Cisco customers can now enable hybrid secure mobility enforcement so that the most optimal on-premise or cloud location can be used for enforcing corporate security policies.


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