Monday, May 19, 2003

Cisco Expands its Network Security Offerings

Cisco Systems announced 14 security solutions and services. These include:

  • Cisco IOS AutoSecure -- a command-line-interface (CLI) based feature that provides "one touch" router lockdown, disabling non-essential operating system processes, enforcing secure access, and enabling secure forwarding features


  • Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) version 1.0 -- wizards for configuring firewall and IP Security (IPSec) VPN services on Cisco 830 to 3700 series access routers


  • CiscoWorks Security Information Management Solution (SIMS) version 3.1 -- security event monitoring and correlation for multivendor security environments


  • Cisco IP Solution Center (ISC) version 3.0 Security Technology Module -- a policy based system for deploying and managing VPN, firewall, Network Address Translation (NAT), and QoS security technologies


  • Cisco IOS Software-based VPN capabilities, including IPSec-to-MPLS integration, allowing service providers to terminate multiple IPSec VPN customer-edge (CE) connections onto a single provider-edge (PE) MPLS interface


The rollout also included a line of hardware-based VPN acceleration modules proving higher performance and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) support for Cisco access routers, additional software capabilities, new host-based threat protection solutions, and new IDS platformshttp://www.cisco.com/go/integrated_security