IDG Contributor Network: Cisco Rapid Threat Containment quickly detects, removes infected end points
Many of the readers of this blog are aware that ever since Cisco acquired SourceFire, and cybersecurity industry legends such as Marty Roesch took leadership roles within the company, Cisco's initiative is for all security products to be open and to interoperate with other products.
Another very large acquisition was OpenDNS, and the CEO from OpenDNS now leads all of the security business at Cisco. The culture is all about Cisco products, as well as non-Cisco products, working better together.
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For many, it's shocking to think about Cisco as a vendor pushing for openness and standards. I'm not sure why because Cisco has spent its life creating networking protocols and then helping them to become standards available to all. But I digress.
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