SAN FRANCISCO--Cisco has unveiled a security architecture "complicated" self-describing on FutureX & equip dubbed says provides a context-aware to safeguard networks increasingly overrun with Smartphones, tablets, and virtualization.
On FutureX & equip, outlined the RSA Conference in San Francisco, initially give Cisco firewalls--and, finally, his switches, routers and other products--the ability to dynamically scan and label data concerning the identity of a user and using application/device in order to have a real time basis for the application of a security policy based on identity.
Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager of Cisco security technology business unit, recognized on FutureX & equip architecture is complex and novel, and its evolution in terms of product implementation only slowly starts to roll out this year.
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The ability to be evident on FutureX & equip should first in the line of multi-use Cisco Adaptive firewall Security Appliance (ASA), which will be equipped with Cisco TrustSec tagging technology to identify a wide range of information about using the network to a user, such as applications, devices, location and time of day, so that security decisions can be made in a context-aware fashion.
"What context will reveal? That someone is, they are part of an organization, what applications are trying to use, they use an iPhone and iPad and is managed by it, "and are inside or outside the corporate network, says Ambika Gadre, senior director of Cisco security technology business unit.
The idea is to flag policy violations, block access or warn of security threats. On FutureX & equip is seen as increasing borderless Cisco networks strategy cycles, which is intended to support applications, processes and services that are increasingly distributed and virtualized, such as those in it environments and software-as-a-service cloud.
"Owns," Gillis recognized when asked if the architecture on FutureX & equip never stretches to embed gear safety or third-party network. But Cisco executives said they are weighing how to create a shared global ecosphere for it, probably by making available APIS or approaching a standards body with some related fundamental technology on FutureX & equip.
Cisco is a great player in the network security market, with approximately 2 billion dollars in sales last year. But the consumerization of endpoint devices such as Apple's iPad and iPhone, as well as mobile devices running Google Android and other software is required in your organization, "is causing us to rethink how security," says Gillis. The spread of virtualized systems is also a big part of that mix, he says.
Cisco provides on FutureX & equip as a way to not only give our customers a broad view of what they are doing on your network computers and users of mobile devices, but to enforce granular policies, such as access to applications on Facebook. There is also the idea that the fusion of some tag identity and device information data with the data accumulated by Security threat Intelligence operations, Cisco, a cloud-based service to analyze information about ongoing threats globally, would advance enabled the security context. Cisco will also accumulate telemetry data culled from actions of situational AnyConnect VPN client and legacy, that its customers use to apply this context-aware security more than 150 million.
Deciphering On Futurex & Equip
In trying to absorb what the heck is talking with Cisco on FutureX & equip--especially with no demonstrable product for show--analysts were somewhat divided.
Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald called on FutureX & equip and the transition to the knowledge based on context "very interesting" and applauded "the wealth of ideas".
But other analysts were skeptical about it, above all its complexity and intimidation Cisco was going on a tangent that was unlikely to benefit the rest of the security industry.
"I wish that Cisco would stop misrepresentation in the areas of security, taking the jumble of some products and mix them into a General over-branded architecture," said Richard Stiennon, analyst at IT-harvest. "Have nothing to show us," he said, adding that if the concept has some chance, the company shall give proof of something important in the next 12 months.
In the next 12 months, Cisco promises to get on FutureX & equip in his line of appliances of ASA. But when asked if this will be a software upgrade or require new hardware, Cisco executives say that they are not safe. "This is to be determined," said Fred Kost, marketing director of security solutions.
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