US-based information technology giant Cisco announced the launch of the Firepower 9300 integrated security platform at the Cisco Live 2015 conference in San Diego, in the US, this week.

The new offering enabled users to embed security throughout the extended network – from the data centre to endpoints, branch offices and the cloud – for pervasive threat visibility and control.

By integrating ‘security everywhere’, enterprises and service providers could deliver the threat-centric security requirements demanded by today's dynamic threat landscape and capture emerging business opportunities created by the rise of the digital economy and the Internet of Everything (IoE).

With ‘security everywhere’, Cisco provided scalable threat protection covering a range of attack vectors and throughout the entire attack continuum – before, during and after a cyber attack.

“To minimise the complexity of managing security across a distributed organisation and to increase threat visibility into the furthest reaches of the enterprise and global service provider infrastructures, Cisco is embedding security throughout the extended network,” said Cisco products and solutions marketing - enterprise segment VP Inbar Lasser-Raab.

“Cisco is adding more sensors to increase visibility; more control points to strengthen enforcement; and pervasive, advanced threat protection to reduce time-to-detection and time-to-response, limiting the impact of attacks,” she explained.

SECURING NETWORKS

Cisco's service provider security solutions offered threat-centric security that protected workloads as they were provisioned – and elastically distributed – across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

To satisfy service provider needs for an open, flexible and programmable infrastructure, Cisco was expanding advanced threat-centric protection for its evolved programmable network (EPN).

The Cisco EPN is the foundation for its open network architecture, designed to advance the adoption of software defined networking and network function virtualisation and to accelerate time to revenue, while reducing the costs and complexities of deploying new services.

Cisco senior VP and GM for the security business David Goeckeler said that, to protect against today's threats and increase organisations’ agility in seizing new growth opportunities and implementing new technologies, security had to be pervasively embedded across the entire network infrastructure.

“By integrating ‘security everywhere' throughout the extended network and through cloud-delivered services, Cisco is protecting a wider array of attack vectors.

“This also provides enterprises and service providers with the confidence that they have the continuous and retrospective visibility and control to support new technologies and business opportunities in the IoE and the digital economy,” he noted.    

The IoE market was expected to generate $19-trillion in value for organisations over the next decade and represented a $1.7-trillion opportunity for service providers.