Cloud Computing: Cisco Bolsters Security Portfolio

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

At Cisco Live, company executives unveil enhanced AMP offerings, new firewalls and the acquisition of ThreatGrid.  Amid Cisco Systems’ talk about collaboration and cloud computing, security emerged as a key subject at during the Cisco Live 2014 event this week.  The networking company at the show unveiled a range of new and enhanced security offerings—including enhancements to its Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) products—and announced it is buying malware analysis vendor ThreatGrid, the third security acquisition Cisco has made this year.

As Cisco continues its efforts to become an enterprise IT solutions provider, security will play a key role, according to CEO John Chambers. In an interview with Bloomberg, Chambers said that the network can provide security that no other part of the IT infrastructure can. That will only help Cisco in its security ambitions…


"We are moving to become the number-one security company, because the only way you can defend [the enterprise IT environment] is from the cloud to the data center, the wide-area network to the edge to any device," the CEO said, noting the company’s recent security acquisitions. "We are moving rapidly to all areas of security, not with individual pieces but an architecture that brings them together."…

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