Cisco Systems broadens its integrated security portfolio

These solutions, including new routing platforms and security services, deliver advanced protection to customers, and support business and productivity growth.

"Security and data integrity are the most important components of an Internet network," said Roger Levenhagen, marketing manager for Cisco Systems Middle East. "Companies of all sizes need to constantly develop their information security policies and infrastructure to ensure that confidential customer and employee information and business knowledge are protected."

Cisco's security strategy is to embed security throughout the network and integrate security services in all its products, making it a transparent, scalable, and manageable aspect of any business infrastructure. Cisco offers customers a simplified and scalable migration path to deliver secure connectivity for Internet Protocol (IP) services. Along with the best-practices network design guidelines known as the SAFE Blueprint, Cisco's approach offers state-of-the-art layered protection of business-critical processes from internal and external threats.

"Effective information security is ultimately dependent on combating the long- acknowledged threats that come from within the enterprise," said Mark Bouchard, Senior Program Director, META Group. "Taking advantage of security services that are embedded and integrated with the computing infrastructure itself, such as those being offered by Cisco, is an efficient and appropriate component of a solution to this challenge."