Cisco is broadening its advanced malware protection and data centre security offering to address South African organisations' need to combat zero-day attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
According to the company, this will help in protecting against threats across the full attack continuum before, during and after an attack.
The updates to the company's advanced malware protection (AMP) makes it the first solution to correlate indications of compromise data between network and endpoint, with integrated threat defence, shared intelligence and pervasive protection against zero day threats, the vendor says.
AMP also now features Mac OSX support and a private cloud appliance, an on-premise solution that delivers continuous analysis, it adds.
"The Internet of everything is creating significant opportunities as more devices, processes and users come online in South Africa and cyber security models must radically change to provide the right protection for this connected world," says Greg Griessel, consulting systems engineer security solutions at Cisco SA.
"We are seeing that major industries in South Africa, such as mining and agriculture, are becoming increasingly connected and this has resulted in a sharp rise in malware attacks."
Cisco is also increasing data centre and cloud protection with enhancements to its ASA firewall family. These enhancements support advances in software-defined networking and application-centric infrastructure environments.
"According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report released earlier in the year, Middle East and Africa regions are posting strong adoption of smart devices creating advanced threats, infiltrating environments at the endpoint, in the data centre and through the cloud," says Griessel.
He concludes that Cisco's mission is to provide solutions that move beyond point-in-time to an anytime, all-the-time threat-centric security model that works continuously across the extended network.
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