Cisco details Sourcefire security threat integration, open source direction
Having acquired the security firm Sourcefire last October, Cisco is using this week's RSA Conference as the showcase for how Cisco's security products are being integrated as well as detailing how it will cut an open-source path for the next-generation application-layer firewall/IPS.
The first step Cisco is taking to integrate Sourcefire’s FireAMP advanced malware detection technology into Cisco’s line of e-mail and web gateways, including cloud-based web security, in order to detect and block incoming threats, or trace any impacted enterprise endpoints if malware makes it through.
“We’re calling it ‘AMP Everywhere,’” says Chris Young, senior vice president of the security group at Cisco, adding that this will extend threat detection and discovery to over 600 million end-users that can be counted as Cisco customers.
