Networking giant Cisco claims it has introduced the first threat focused firewall.
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services uses contextual awareness and controls to automatically assess threats, provide intelligence and improve defences to protect network.
Aimed at large enterprises, it includes Sourcefire’s Advanced Malware Protection and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems.
The software management gives authorised users dashboards and drill down reports of discovered hosts, dodgy applications, threats and indicators of compromised systems.
Cisco claims its firewall is enterprise class, and supports VPN, advanced clustering and granular application layer and risk based controls. Open source integration with Snort, OpenAppID and ClamAV let companies customise security.
No details of pricing are available.
