Cisco Managed Threat Defense Service

Managed Threat Defense Service is the managed solution for information security systems.

On April 22, 2014 the Cisco Systems company started Managed Threat Defense Service using means of predictive analytics in real time for detection of the attacks and protection against an advanced malicious code in expanded networks of clients.

Description

The Cisco managed service for protection against threats is locally deployed solution as a part of which hardware-software providing and means of analytics for monitoring of network, data collection and the analysis of threats. On the global area network of the centers of monitoring and security management created by Cisco company (Security Operations Center, SOC) specialists watch work of this solution, provide the analysis according to the results of response to incidents, perform procedures of escalation and also make recommendations about work recovery.

Functionality of Managed Threat Defense Service

• protects from the unknown attacks which are missed by antivirus software, collecting stream telemetric information in real time;
• using the Hadoop 2.0 system involves the predictive analytics detecting the templates abnormal for a unique profile of network of each customer and to reveal suspicious behavior;
• defines the known attacks and vulnerabilities, using the signature analysis and information on threats obtained both from public and from proprietary databases of Cisco on the analysis of threats;
• traces incidents and provides reports for subscribers of service.

This approach reduces operating expenses and allows to seize Cisco opportunities in the form of technologies, processes and information security specialists. The innovative technologies of security of Cisco concern them:

• the Advanced Malware Protection system for detection of a malicious code and an exception of unnecessary warnings,
• hardware platform of Sourcefire FirePOWER for detection of threats,
• the cloud offer of Cisco Cloud Web Security for filtering of web traffic and traffic of e-mail.

Availability

The order of managed service for protection against threats - directly in Cisco. Partners also sell this service. For April 24, 2014 service is available in the USA and Canada, in the Pacific Rim - Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Japan.