Network security threats have the potential to significantly impede productivity, disrupt business and operations, and result in loss of information—which can lead to financial losses and regulatory compliance violations. Inefficient security operations and non-integrated security management solutions not only drive up security management costs, but also increase the risk of exposure.

The evolution and complexity of threats must be addressed with proactive IT security strategies that maintain business continuity, provide infrastructure wide threat visibility and protection, and simplify day-to-day network management. The entire security infrastructure—network, systems, and management—must work in concert to proactively defend against a wide array of threats, and reduce the mean time to respond and mitigate during an event. Threat control solutions from Cisco deliver comprehensive and proactive network defense, streamlined policy and system management, and business continuity:

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Security Services Modules deliver the vision of integrated network security with a suite of advanced security modules including Firewall, Intrusion Detection, and IPsec and SSL VPN modules.
  
  
  
  
• Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances are easy-to-deploy solutions that integrate world-class firewall, voice/video security, SSL and IPsec VPN, intrusion prevention, and content security services in a scalable, modular product family.
  
  
  
• Cisco Security Manager (CSM) integrates management of firewalls, intrusion detection services, and VPN services, allowing IT to simplify and centralize management of security policies across the enterprise. CSM supports provisioning for Cisco IOS router security, ASA 5500 and PIX appliances, IPS 4200 sensors, and Catalyst 6500 security services modules. CSM helps you respond faster to threats by defining new security policies to thousands of devices in a few simple steps.
  
  
  
• The Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (CS-MARS) is an enterprise-wide threat correlation and alarm management system. CS-MARS provides significant improvements into threat visibility, enabling security operations staff to quickly visualize and then neutralize threats as they propagate through the network—in real-time.