Cisco to start general availability of new security platform "SecureX"

Cisco Systems announced on June 16th that it will make its new security platform, Cisco Secure X, generally available on June 30th. SecureX is one of the highlights of the company's annual Cisco Live event, which is being held online under the influence of the new coronavirus.

Introduced in March, SecureX is a cloud-native security platform aimed at increasing visibility across a company's security infrastructure through analytics and workflow automation. According to Cisco, SecureX provides an integrated visualization of existing security products, including third-party products.

The platform can analyze endpoint, cloud, network, and application data together, making risk discovery and threat response more efficient.

Gee Rittenhouse, head of Cisco's security business group, said SecureX is at the heart of the company's security product portfolio and the culmination of many years of development.

Since its public release, all Cisco security products will come with Secure X.

The company also announced that it will enhance user and device protection by integrating endpoint security and multi-factor authentication technology. In addition, we will release Cloud Mailbox Defense for Office 365, a product that enhances protection against advanced email-related threats such as phishing, ransomware, spoofing, and spam.

The company's security efforts are also closely tied to its networking business strategy. SecureX will benefit both the network infrastructure operations team and the security team, Rittenhouse said.

Regarding the networking business, it announced that it will be able to integrate the SD-WAN of "Viptela" and "Cisco Umbrella" to block connections with malicious destinations before the connection is established. In addition, in order to promote network segmentation, we added the ability to identify unknown endpoints in the "DNA Center" and logically group those endpoints using various contextual information and artificial intelligence. I announced that. The DNA Center will also add the ability to analyze the flow of traffic between groups of endpoints to help design segmentation policies. In addition, the company's indoor location information service platform "Cisco DNA Spaces" will be able to use "indoor IoT as a service" using Wi-Fi 6 access points.

This article was edited by Asahi Interactive for Japan from an article from overseas CBS Interactive.