SecureX gon give it to ya: Cisco muscles into the integrated security game

Cisco has belatedly crashed the integrated security party with SecureX – a platform that slaps together Switchzilla's network, endpoint cloud and application security stuff. The product combines a chunk of Cisco's security portfolio – firewalls, web and email services, malware protection and intrusion detection systems – in a …

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't this have the 'sponsored' flag? It's just an advertorial...

[Torquemada_131]

Dear anonymous coward,

Your comment suggests that manufacturers should just develop new products and stack them on the shelf, waiting for customer to call them with orders....

Press Releases are a fully accepted method of getting a new product 'free' visibility.

After this point, every method of creating customer awareness costs money...

[sanmigueelbeer]

IF it works switchzilla claimed SecureX can analyse data across more than 150 million endpoints and network traffic

There, FTFY.

But Cisco faces stiff competition from other enterprise vendors who have been pushing integrated solutions for years

Late to the party, again.

[HildyJ]

Does it include?

NSA backdoors at no extra charge?

[EnviableOne]

if it can't handle all their stuff in the first release

how are they going to get everyone elses to work?

My suspicion is like all cisco software, the gui will be awful, the functionality questionable, the licence cost prohibitive and the support extorsion