CISCO CATALYST INTEGRATED SECURITY — ENABLING THE SELF-DEFENDING NETWORK

Network security has become the primary concern of most enterprise and commercial network administrato rs. Whereas the greatest concern in the past was “physical secu rity,” the almost-weekly release of new Internet-ba sed viruses, worms, and attack tools has vastly increased the ri sk to the very fabric of business productivity. Net work security was once viewed merely as a firewall between the networ k and the Internet. Now, network managers are looki ng to integrate security end to end throughout the network, where s ecurity policies and capabilities permeate every pl ace and device in the network. With the network becoming a critical i ntegration point for IP-enabled applications and co mmunications systems, such as Voice over IP, security is more im portant than ever. The place to start is the switch ing infrastructure.