Cisco Advance Malware Protection for EndPoints

The world is not going to stop for more and more innovation, whether it is in datacenter or in security. More the precautions to stop the malware in the environment, more the methods to send the malware in the networks.

You can build the network strong and innovative but security is the main concern everywhere. Networks are facing various issues to handle the security or the threats coming day by day. After malware is inside, traditional detection tools provide limited or no visibility into the activity of potential threats. IT security teams are left blind and unable to quickly respond. As a result, organizations are being breached every day. 

Today i am talking about the Email security as a lot of malware are coming from the Email. It is critical to deploy an email security solution that provides visibility across the entire attack, means before the attack, during the attack and after the attack. It can take care full cycle to handle and control the malware in the network.

Fig 1.1- Cisco AMP Solution

Cisco is come up with the solution named " Cisco AMP- Advance Malware Protection for end points. Cisco Email Security can address the full lifecycle of advanced malware on email gateways and protect against the most stealthy email attacks that evade traditional defenses. 

While understanding the complexity in the network and the number of the attacks day by day. Cisco actually made full cycle in the security domain to prevent such attacks in the network and the endpoint. Cisco have various methods and solution to prevent that.

Cisco also trying to pitch a new DNS layer security feature in the market which is so much loved by the customer and favours them to resolves the issue at the DNS layer. The feature and the product is called as Cisco Umbrella or so called Open DNS in the market. You can have total security with the Cisco Umbrella and first level of defence in the network and break the chain of communication between the user and the bad domains which actually send the malware and threats in the network.

Fig 1.2- Cisco Umbrella and AMP

Combining the solution with the Cisco umbrella with the Next Generation Firewall- Cisco FTD Firepower and the Cisco AMP for end points you are actually going to prevent the network from the outside malware by creating triple protection layer in your network. If you required the visibility in the network with these protection then you can have the NGIPS- the Next generation IPS.

Deep visibility, context, and control mechanism in the Network ?

Yeah so as per the latest information from various vendors in the market, it was agreed that no prevention method will catch every threat. You need to be prepared when advanced malware gets inside. Still you need to have various layers which you actually need to protect your network from the abnormal behaviour in the network.

AMP for Endpoints gives you deep visibility into executable and file activity across all of your endpoints so you can spot threats fast, scope a compromise, and remediate instantly.

Threat intelligence and sandboxing, What does it means ?

It was a study in the cisco internally that Cisco Talos team inspect and analyses millions of malware samples and terabytes of data every day. So they understand the behaviour and the pattern of the malware in the broad spectrum. Cisco says there are a lot of innovation happening to make new patterns and behaviour of the malware and pushes that intelligence to AMP so you will be protected around the clock. Also, advanced sandboxing capabilities perform automated static and dynamic analysis of files against more than 700 behavioral indicators to uncover stealthy threats. Now that's intelligent endpoint security.

Fig 1.3- Cisco AMP for Gateway, Network and Endpoint

Why Advanced Malware Protection for Email Security? 

Well that the fair question to everybody's mind. The main reason to add AMP to Cisco’s email security solutions will provides you the advanced threat capabilities alongside traditional email security features like antivirus and antispam tools to take your threat protection to the next level. 

By the help of this solution you actually inspect email content and transactions and analyze them using real-time threat intelligence. They can also deploy retrospective detection alerts so that you can track malware that made it through your initial defenses and later turned malicious. 

Meanwhile if you want to secure your endpoint from the threats and want triple security, go with the Cisco AMP solution for the endpoint. Although Cisco AMP solution is for the gateway, Network also available with the full feature set and capabilities.

Open DNS or called as Cisco Umbrella is one of the basic security feature on the top of it. Soon i will come up with the AMP feature for the gateway and the Network also and also will touch many more innovations which is happing in Cisco to make your network more intelligent and secure from the malware and attacks.