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Data Center Security

Introduction

Today's data center is a key target for criminals trying to hijack, steal, or destroy critical and confidential information.

Cisco Data Center Security solutions enable you to create a trusted data center infrastructure based on a systems approach and using industry-leading security solutions:


These solutions enable you to rapidly deploy data center technologies without compromising on the ability to identify and respond to evolving threats, protect critical assets, and enforce business policies.

Featured Products

The Data Center Transformed

The Cisco Unified Computing System unites network, compute, and virtualization resources into a single seamless system to reduce TCO and increase business agility.

Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall

Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall

Dramatically reduce exposure to web-based attacks on mission-critical applications, and simplify ongoing Web security management.

Cisco ASA 5500

Cisco ASA 5500

This high-performance security platform is designed to protect multimedia, highly transactional, and latency-sensitive applications at the enterprise data center and Internet edge.

Secure Data Center Solutions

Properly securing your data center by implementing solutions from the Cisco Self-Defending Network portfolio allows you to deal appropriately with your top security concerns:


You can address these issues by implementing security solutions that are designed to provide:

  • Increase visibility, detection and control over security events within the data center
  • Increase control over the types of behaviors and traffic allowed to traverse the data center
  • Increased threat protection against emerging application exploits
  • Rapidly react to regulatory compliance mandates

ACE Web Application Firewall

Reduce exposure to Web-based attacks on mission-critical applications, accelerate web application deployment and reduce total cost of ownership.

ACE XML Gateway

Efficiently deploy secure, reliable, and accelerated web service environments based on XML and SOAP.

Advanced Security Appliance 5500

Comprehensive network-based defense protects multimedia, highly transactional, and latency-sensitive applications at the Internet edge and enterprise data center.

Nexus 1000V Series Switches

These new switches integrate with the hypervisor to deliver per virtual machine security policy enforcement and visibility.

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption (SME)

Encrypt data at rest on heterogeneous tape devices and virtual tape libraries without rewiring or reconfiguring storage area networks (SANs) or installing additional software.

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS)

Centrally manage access to network resources for a growing variety of access types, devices, and user groups to improve regulatory and corporate compliance and contain costs.

Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System

Scalable threat mitigation enables organizations to identify, manage, and eliminate network attacks.

Featured Content

Data Center of the Future

Learn more about how you can architect the data center of the future today using Cisco technology and best practices, and how Cisco is collaborating with other key data center technology providers.
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Cisco Knowledge Network

View a webcast series to find out how key technologies are implemented in the data center and over the WAN.
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New Suit of Armor: Securing the New Data Center

Nemertes Research outlines key solutions to current threats and security concerns in the data center.
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Securing the Data Center

Discover how Cisco Self-Defending Networks provide solutions to data center security challenges.
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Defining the U in UTM: Unified, Ubiquitous, or Useless?

Learn how unified threat management is evolving to align corporate risk tolerance while supporting business agility.
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