NGFW

May 18, 2016

SECURITY

A Winning NGFW

3 min read

Cisco Firepower NGFW recognized with Best of Interop 2016 Award for Security Each year at Interop, a group of the most influential IT practitioners, analysts and professionals vote on the...

April 26, 2016

SECURITY

The Service Provider Security Question

4 min read

I talk to a lot of customers and partners in the Service Provider space, and among the many conversations, I notice a common set of concerns centered around a simple...

March 22, 2016

TECHWISETV

Oxymoronic or Not? Legacy Next Generation Firewalls…

2 min read

Cisco announced “the industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused Next Generation Firewall. “ But what the heck is ‘fully integrated’ and ‘threat focused?’ These sound like important distinctions.

March 1, 2016

SECURITY

Cisco Firepower Management Center Brings Security Into Focus

3 min read

IT Teams gain insight and focus with the industry’s most comprehensive NGFW management - before, during and after attacks. As we discussed in our last two posts, most organizations today...

February 19, 2016

PARTNER

Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind – February 19, 2016

3 min read

Each week, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco Partner Ecosystem news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week: Off the Top Wow. Another week went by just like that. Around here, we continue to prep […]

February 18, 2016

SECURITY

Firepower NGFW Steps up to Deliver Greater Effectiveness with Reduced Costs and Complexity

3 min read

Full NGFW integration yields streamlined security and greater value from investments We know that security, when done properly, can be a business enabler. But as IT teams build out their...

February 16, 2016

SECURITY

Introducing Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall

4 min read

Enable Digital Business with the Industry’s First Fully Integrated, Threat-Focused NGFW Today’s world is undergoing digital disruption that will spark more connectivity than ever before, as consumers, businesses and governments...

December 21, 2015

SECURITY

Threat-Focused NG-Firewall – Who Cares? Part 3

7 min read

This is Part 3 of our blog series about NG-Firewalls. See Part 1 here. Part 3: Challenges of the Typical NGFW What good is a malicious verdict on something...

December 17, 2015

SECURITY

Threat-Focused NG-Firewall – Who Cares? Part 2

4 min read

This is Part 2 of our blog series about NG-Firewalls. See Part 1 here. Part 2: Enter Threat-Focused NG-Firewall What does a Threat-focused NG-Firewall do differently? Just about everything. Let’s compare the most popular NGFW systems on the market (typical NGFW) with the Cisco Firepower NG-Firewall system, (a Threat-Focused NG-Firewall). If you consider the typical NGFW […]