IronPort

Great Product

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:22:53 -0400

My company has over 50,000 employees and uses IronPort for our enterprise email. From a user perspective, I have never had a problem with it - I get the messages I'm supposed to and I don't get spam.

Best antispammer

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:03:08 -0400

Get an Ironport. It will reduce bad emails by 90%. We don't get any "spam" or back scattered emails.

Cisco security gear + reputation services = good thing

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:46:29 -0400

Scott Weiss is right when he says that adding reputation to Cisco's security gear is important. And Cisco is right about giving over control of its classic security gear - firewalls, VPNs, IPSes - to Weiss, who was brought into Cisco about a year ago when Cisco bought Ironport. Now Weiss says he wants to cross-pollenate engineers from his former company and Cisco's security engineers to see what they can come up with.

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Cisco's new takeover strategy

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:47:52 -0400

Cisco was front and center Page 1 news today in the Wall Street Journal, which documents the company's new approach to acquisitions. In a nutshell, the company famous for growth and innovation via buyouts even moreso than for what goes on its own labs , has been buying bigger companies than it used to and is less aggressive about smushing them in with the rest of Cisco. For one reason, companies like Scientific-Atlanta specialized in areas that Cisco didn't already have a market in -- so there wasn't really any place to fold the acquired company into.

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Cisco updates Self-Defending Network family, adds content filtering to services routers

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:33:27 -0400

Cisco updated its so-called Self-Defending Network portfolio, which includes the addition of content filtering software from Trend Micro to Cisco's Integrated Services Routers, and enhancements to Cisco's endpoint defense, firewalls, intrusion prevention, and router security capabilities.

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Promising solution ... and every vendor should follow it

xmachine — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:31:19 -0400

If every security product vendor including firewalls, IDS's, Web content filtering include a botnet-traffic prevention module, will save the Internet. Because it became a serious problem that everyone has to participate to solve. IronPort, Websense are the top leaders in the content filtering marketing. I hope CSO's reconsider the current classic solutions that are not catching up with the latest threats and hackers techniques. http://extremesecurity.blogspot.com

Top 6 Cisco acquisitions of 2007; what it should buy in 2008

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:05:58 -0500

Cisco made 11 acquisitions this year culminating in 126 purchases since Cisco's birth. It made three more acquisitions than it did last year, when it spent a measly $256 million buying ho-hum technologies. This year was different, not only in the sheer dollar size of some acquisitions, but also because of the breadth of technologies it acquired.

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The top 5 coolest security features/products released this year by Cisco

jheary — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:13:50 -0500

WoW 2007 is almost over! It seems like it has flown by. Cisco security has made some great strides over the year. Let’s take a look back at some of the most interesting, useful, and/or innovative security related features & products that Cisco released in 2007. I’d also like to hear from you what ones you’ve been most impressed with this year.

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Innovative new way to do Email Encryption

jheary — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:17:15 -0400

Email encryption solutions have always been a headache for users as well as administrators. The most main stream solutions use a pull technology or use PGP. Both of these solutions have proven to have several problems, most notably is their lack of ease of use. Cisco’s IronPort PostX encryption solution breaks away from the status quo with their push technology. Here’s how it works: [img]http://www.jheary.com/encryption1.gif[/img]

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Cisco's acquisitions: Stifling innovation?

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:17:22 -0400

Cisco is serious about security as its integration work associated with its acquisition of IronPort illustrates, according to former IronPort CEO Scott Weiss speaking at the Security Standard conference in Chicago.

Weiss said that work is not just an attempt for Cisco to grow revenue or to boost sales of its networking gear.

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Cisco Self-Defending Network still a work-in-progress

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:54:00 -0400

There's still work left to be done with Cisco's Self-Defending Network, Cisco's 6-year-old strategy for securing converged networks, reports Network World's Jim Duffy.

Cisco's aim with SDN is to integrate security into all aspects of a converged data, voice and video network with a focus on secure connectivity, threat defense, and trust and identity management. Its most recent update to the strategy was its acquisition of IronPort, a developer of e-mail and Web security products.

According to the story, Cisco customers and industry analyst want to see the following from Cisco's SDN strategy:

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Cisco, Trend Micro cozy up, where does that leave IronPort?

Cisco Subnet — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:20:57 -0400

Rational Security blog has an interesting analysis of Cisco and Trend Micro extending its three-year-old collaboration to now include Trend Micro's content security features into Cisco routers. Rational Security wonders where in the picture is the content security of Cisco's acquisition IronPort.

Rational Security writes:

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Cisco worries IronPort partners

Cisco Subnet — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:21:30 -0400

Cisco closed its acquisition of communications security vendor IronPort Monday, giving the network giant access to what’s becoming an essential tool in helping to thwart Internet threats -- reputation services -- adding content security to the list of features its network devices boast.

A CRN story says the "move has some IronPort partners wondering how long their healthy margins will last."

While Cisco's current strategy calls for keeping IronPort's channel separate from its own, IronPort partners said they expect their 20 percent-plus margins to become extinct once the products are inevitably opened up to the broader Cisco channel.

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Cisco adds IronPort's content filtering to ASA firewall

Cisco Subnet — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:12:23 -0400

Cisco will begin offering IronPort's e-mail and Web filtering capabilities to its firewall customers after the network giant's purchase of the security vendor closes on June 25, reports InfoWorld. The malware distribution data gathered by IronPort's SenderBase IP address reputation service will be blended into Cisco's Adapative Security Appliance firewall.

Cisco announced plans to acquire IronPort for $830 million in January.

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IronPort brings 'intelligence' to Cisco

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:46:23 -0500

Eric Ogren, a security analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group is praising Cisco's acquisition of IronPort, saying that "IronPort positions Cisco to finally implement intelligence that can breathe life into its 'Self Defending Network.'"

What are the benefits to customers of Cisco's acquisition of IronPort?