A look back at Cisco Security in 2010
Cisco Security received lots of positive attention in 2010
By jheary on Wed, 12/29/10 - 1:52pm.
Cisco's Security business had a good year in 2010. Not a great year, but a good one. Cisco has always struggled to be thought of as a best of breed security player and 2010 was no different. But what is different about 2010 is Cisco made some of the biggest mindshare gains among skeptics than it has in a very long time. Lets take a look back at Cisco Security in 2010.
Cisco received numerous positive reviews from the Gartner Group in 2010. Gartner placed several of Cisco's security products in its Leaders magic quadrant. Cisco is considered by Gartner to be a leader in the following security spaces: SSLVPN, Email Security, Secure Web gateway and Network Access Control.
Cisco released its new flagship FW/IPS solution in 2010 to compete in Datacenter security deals. The ASA 5585X can scale up to almost 40Gbps of FW performance in a 2RU form factor.
Cisco's IPS solution received the "recommended" rating by the NSS testing group. Cisco IPS also received the SC Magazine 2010 Best IDS/IPS solution. Cisco also took home the SC magazine awards for Best messaging security solution and Best Web Filtering solution. Cisco took home the bronze in both IPS and FW readers choice awards in InfoSec Magazine 2010 results.
In 2010, Cisco won the National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge put on by the DHS. Cisco won in the category of Best Publicity and Marketing. Cisco also received the Frost & Sullivan Australia 2010 Best Practices Award for "network security vendor of the year".
2010 marked the year that Cisco ASA software started to support global firewall rules and object based NAT. The ASA 8.3 software forever changed the way admins can write their rules and NATs. Additionally, Cisco Security Manager 4.0 added in an event log feature to take in ASA and IPS events.
All in all 2010 was a big year in security and a pretty good year for Cisco Security solutions. Competition is fierce in almost all segments of security and looks to remain so for the foreseeable future. I can't wait to see what 2011 brings us!
The opinions and information presented here are my PERSONAL views and not those of my employer. I am in no way an official spokesperson for my employer.
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Jamey Heary, CCIE #7680, sits on the PCI Security Standards Council- Board of Advisors where he provides strategic and technical guidance for future PCI standards. Jamey is the author of Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access. (Check out all of Jamey Heary's books from Cisco Press.) He also has a patent pending on a new DDoS mitigation technique.
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