Products & Services Security
Complexity and inconsistency hinder the ability to protect
a company's information resources. Trying to connect a variety of
individual point products and security devices introduces security
gaps, potentially leading to unwanted exposure even in the most
secure of environments.
The most comprehensive approach to network security is an integrated
solution that combines the following:
- Existing infrastructure devices with embedded security solutions
- Security devices that have native network intelligence
- Security policy in a collaborative and adaptive security system.
An integrated system provides greater risk reduction than any individual
product or combination of disparate and disconnected security devices,
regardless of features or performance. Using the network to provide
common security architecture:
- Reduces complexity
- Enables tighter integration
- Closes risk gaps
- Provides greater visibility of end-to-end security.
Simplifying the environment with an integrated network approach results
in security that is easier to deploy and manage. Additionally, such
common security architecture provides a platform to evolve to advanced
security services and capabilities while protecting your investment.
This approach is:
- Integrated – every element in the network acts as a point of
defence. Switches, routers, appliances and endpoints all incorporate
security functionalities including, but not limited to, firewalling,
virtual private networking and trust and identity capabilities.
This integration incorporates technologies inherent in the secure
operation of network devices
- Collaborative – various network components work together to provide
new means of protection. Security involves cooperation between endpoints,
network elements and policy enforcement. For example, with network
admission control, endpoints are admitted to the network based on their
adherence to security policy as enforced by network devices such as
routers and switches
- Adaptive – innovative behavioural methods automatically recognise new
types of threats as they arise. Mutual awareness can exist among and
between security services and network intelligence, increasing security
effectiveness and enabling a more proactive response to new threats. This
effectively mitigates security risks by broadening threat-recognition
capabilities and addressing threats at multiple layers of the network
through behaviour recognition, application awareness and network
control.