Infrastructure Management Equipment

Automate Security for Dynamic Defense

The Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center continually monitors how your network is changing over time. New threats are automatically correlated against the vulnerabilities that exist in your network to determine whether they can affect your business. This enables you to cut through all of the noise and focus your efforts on responding to the events that will have the most impact. Critical security activities such as policy tuning are also automated, saving time and effort, while adapting your network defenses to changing conditions. This results in optimized security policies that are specifically tailored to the network you have and the threats that you face.

Choice of Deployment Modes

Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center can be deployed as a physical or virtual appliance, allowing you to choose what options work best for your environment. Physical Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center appliances generally manage a higher number of sensors and provide greater event storage capabilities than their virtual counterparts. Virtual Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center appliances provide the convenience of being able to use your existing VM infrastructure. They can be easily deployed using VMware vSphere provisioning and can be used to protect assets in a physical network. Version 5.x virtual appliances can be hosted on VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisors and can manage up to 25 physical or virtual sensors.

The Cisco Cloud Services Platform (CSP) 5000 Series is a turnkey, open Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform based on x86 and RHEL Kernal-based Virtual Machine (KVM). It is optimized for the networking data plane and for operational simplicity, and can be managed with orchestration or as standalone network platform.

This document details the specifications for the Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) 10.0 and newer application running on the virtual and physical versions of the Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE). Cisco CMX is a smart Wi-Fi application suite that uses the Cisco wireless infrastructure to locate smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices and deliver relevant services to them. With it, your organization can directly serve personalized content to users.

What's New with CMX 10.2

• Presence Analytics: CMX now supports presence analytics. Because presence does not require x,y coordinates, a CMX presence deployment can be completed in less than 30 minutes.

• Social Media Analytics - Track to social media postings.

• Automatic Report Generation by Industry: Select your industry and CMX automatically generates reports most relevant to that industry.

• Cisco Hyperlocation Solution: CMX now supports location accuracy to under one meter.

• Cisco CMX FastLocate: Improved for greater location refresh rate, FastLocate is also available for access points without the Cisco Wireless Security Module.

• CMX Connect Portals and Templates: Creating a custom, captive portal has never been easier with more available templates, images, and language support. You can create a customer portal within minutes.

The Cisco® Application Policy Infrastructure Controller - Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) is our software-defined networking (SDN) controller for enterprise networks (in the campus or branch and the WAN). It delivers an elastic platform for policy-based automation that simplifies and abstracts the network. It can enable transformation of business intent to network control. The platform is built to host multiple, easy-to-use SDN applications that use open, northbound representational state transfer (REST) APIs and drive core network automation solutions. The platform also supports a number of southbound protocols that enable it to communicate with the breadth of network devices customers already have in place, and extend SDN benefits to both greenfield and brownfield environments, immediately from the start. The goal of the APIC-EM platform is to power next-generation SDN applications that will dramatically lower operational expenditures and increase network agility to align with business needs.

The APIC-EM platform supports both wired and wireless enterprise networks across the WAN, and access and wireless infrastructures. It offers superior investment protection, and works with both existing and new infrastructure. The APIC-EM platform delivers many significant benefits. For example, it:

• Creates an intelligent, open, programmable network with open APIs
• Can help customers save time, resources, and costs through advanced automation services
• Can transform business-intent policies into dynamic network configuration
• Provides a single point for network-wide automation and control