Cisco unveiled new security hardware and software Tuesday, but it's really trying to sell peace of mind.
The offerings advance the San Jose, Calif., company's "self-defending network" strategy, which strives to develop a network that identifies threats, isolates infected components and reconfigures systems with minimal intervention from harried IT managers.
It comes as businesses are scrambling to keep increasingly sophisticated viruses from breaching their systems, a threat compounded by workers accessing corporate networks through unsecured phone, PDA and Wi-Fi (define) connections.
"The overarching goal is to help enterprise customers autonomously protect themselves from known and unknown Internet threats," Cisco spokeswoman Amy Hughes told internetnews.com. "It's a systems-based approach."
On the software side, Cisco upgraded its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) to help customers trace entry points used for denial-of-service attacks (define) and give managers a direct channel into the router. The IOS also inspects packets to guard against known mail attacks.
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3323671

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