GEC NEWS WIRECisco introduces industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused next-generation firewall; empower customers to better defend against advanced threats
Cisco has introduced innovations to its flagship Next-Generation Firewall— the goal of which is to deliver leading protection to keep organizations safer.
Cisco’s first fully integrated and threat-focused Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) marks a significant departure from the focus of legacy NGFWs on application control. By focusing instead on threat defense, Cisco will help organizations better manage and minimize risk. Think of it as legacy NGFWs protecting “homes” by securing windows and doors, whereas Cisco’s approach is to identify, detect and protect against would-be burglars no matter how they try to gain access to a property.
Cisco is also introducing the Cisco Security Segmentation Service, an advisory service that helps organizations create security controls that enhance compliance, breach containment, threat detection, content security and data loss prevention across their IT infrastructure.
Both offerings are aimed at protecting against bold and resilient threats from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
Rabih Dabboussi, General Manager, Cisco UAE said, “The Cisco Firepower NGFW acts as a unifying platform, integrating Cisco and third-party security solutions for increased correlation and context. The result is better protection, and faster detection and response to advanced threats. The Cisco Segmentation Service will help our UAE customers build a dynamic, resilient secure infrastructure to combat threats in real-time,” concluded Rabih Dabboussi.
