Winner: Cisco Systems for Cisco IronPort Email Security
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Enterprises of all sizes face the same daunting challenges – increasing mail volumes and new, evolving threats. The Cisco IronPort Email Security services portfolio provides customers with superior choice of deployment models built on the solid foundation of a leading email security technology. It protects 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies from inbound threats and outbound data loss possibilities. The Cisco IronPort Email Security Portfolio addresses the needs of the market by providing email security leadership with choice, backed by guarantees. Now customers have the ability to select from an array of solutions that include an appliance form factor, a dedicated hosted infrastructure that resides fully in the cloud, a unique hybrid hosted solution with email security infrastructure both in-the-cloud and on-premises, or an on-premises managed form factor.
The tool provides end-users with a choice. Most competitors offer an appliance or a hosted service. With Cisco's solution, customers may choose the solution most suitable for their needs,
and change that solution according to their needs.
The dedicated infrastructure that powers all services provides customers with strong anti-spam efficacy with third party-verified 99 percent spam catch rate and less than one in one million false positive rate. Maximum data privacy is provided as users no longer have to deal with the risk of data co-mingling, advanced controls, like DLP and encryption capabilities, protect sensitive information, while real-time tools, like message tracking and reporting, make for better decision making.
The Email Security portfolio is backed by a leading Security Intelligence Operations Center (SIO). SIO features hundreds of servers, technicians and researchers analyzing terabytes of threat data each day. With this “satellite view” of the internet, Cisco often updates its products with the latest threat signatures ahead of competitors. This threat tracking system is used by the entire Cisco security portfolio, arming every level of network defense with a complete awareness of its environment. Whether the infrastructure is on premises or in-the-cloud, customers always have access to configuration and logs, real-time comprehensive reports and message tracking 24/7.
Winner: Cisco Systems for Cisco IronPort S-Series Secure Web Gateway
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The Cisco IronPort S-Series web security appliance is the industry's first and only secure web gateway to combine next generation Web Usage Controls, reputation filtering, malware filtering and data security on a single platform to address the growing challenges of both securing and controlling web traffic. Leveraging Cisco SIO and global threat correlation technology help to increase the intelligence and speed of Cisco IronPort appliances. This advanced technology enables organizations to improve their security and transparently protect users from the latest internet threats.
Additionally for advanced acceptable use policy (AUP), Cisco IronPort Web Usage Controls are a leading solution for enforcing acceptable-use policies for web access, improving visibility into web traffic and raising employee productivity. This powerful solution combines a robust URL database with wide coverage in the industry and real-time dynamic categorization to identify objectionable content hidden in the dark
Cisco IronPort Web Reputation Filters analyze more than 50 different web traffic and network-related parameters to accurately evaluate the trustworthiness of a URL or IP addresses. The tool examines every request made by the browser – from the initial HTML request to all subsequent data requests, including live data, which may be fed from different domains. This gives these filters an advantage over vendors that reduce web reputation to a simple URL filtering category.
The Cisco IronPort Anti-Malware System enables the Cisco IronPort S-Series the ability to offer multiple anti-malware scanning engines on a single, integrated appliance. This system leverages the Cisco IronPort Dynamic Vectoring and Streaming (DVS) engine, as well as verdict engines from Webroot and McAfee, to provide protection against the widest variety of web-based threats.
Its coupling to other Cisco products will allow this solution to absorb value from the traditional endpoint and the traditional firewall markets – a $10 billion combined market today. The trend toward borderless network blurs the distinctions of these separate markets, and the resulting re-definition of value will be the third albeit longer-term growth vector for the Cisco IronPort S-Series business.