Cisco Security Portfolio

Cisco announced significant new capabilities for enhanced collaboration among
several products and services in its security portfolio. The collective
enhancements involve Cisco's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Cisco Security
Agent (CSA), Cisco Security Mitigation Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS),
Cisco Security Manager (CSM) and Cisco's Secure Sockets Layer virtual private
network (SSL VPN).

Cisco's enhanced security portfolio includes Cisco IPS 6.0, CSA 5.2, CS-MARS
4.3 and CSM 3.1-four products that combine to coordinate visibility,
network-wide protection, simplified policy management and dynamic threat
mitigation in order to maintain business continuity.

In addition to its advances in collaborative threat-control, Cisco announced
a new wave of SSL VPN enhancements to the software that drives its Adaptive
Security Appliance (ASA) family of products, which offer integrated firewall,
IPS, anti-malware, and VPN functionality. The latest ASA 8.0 software raises the
bar for SSL VPN solutions, complementing Cisco's proven IPsec solutions with
features that lower IT's cost of ownership even as organizations become more
distributed and their users more mobile and remote.

ASA's SSL VPN updates include:

• Clientless VPN with enhanced portal design for highly customizable user
  experience including personalized bookmarks, RSS feeds, and localization
  support.
• Cisco's next-generation 'AnyConnect' VPN client, with broader operating
  system support for Microsoft Vista and windows, MAC OS X, and Linux.
• Cisco AnyConnect mobile VPN client supports windows mobile 5.0 pocket PC
  Edition.
• Optimized network access for voice over IP (VoIP) and other
  latency-sensitive traffic.
• Ability to create 'smart tunnels' that provide policy-driven applications
  specific access without requiring administrative rights.
• Embedded Certificate Authority (CA) and additional user credential options
  simplify authentication.
• Direct mapping of windows active directory membership to VPN access
  simplifies IT's security management by automatically granting users
  appropriate VPN permissions.
• Posture-assessment extensions adjust users' VPN permissions more
  efficiently.
• Intuitive management via ASA's Adaptive Security Device Manager, CSM 3.1.

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