Cisco Cisco Application Performance Assurance Network Module Scheda Tecnica

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In real-world enterprise deployments consisting of hundreds of interdependent applications, the

ability of the network to deal with complex security challenges becomes key to ongoing application

management and deployment. The network must be equipped to help enable and enforce complex

security that spans enterprise and partner boundaries with consideration to:

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Compliance and auditing requirements with stiff penalties and fines for violators

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Identity and trust management concerns that are increasingly difficult to manage across

partner ecosystems

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Security infrastructure requirements that require a balance of performance and protection

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Data security that protects confidentiality and integrity of information in transit

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Attack protection and prevention to foil massive and complex assaults

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Security policy management to invoke and enforce business rules across organizational

boundaries

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Business-to-business and multidomain security to facilitate e-commerce relationships

among trading partners

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Network and transport security to provide fundamental and ubiquitous protection

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Third-party integration to help enable application, network, and specialized systems from

multiple providers

These and other considerations give rise to senior executives’ fundamental awareness that

security is imperative for business operations and continued expansion.

The Cisco AON technology provides two fundamental capabilities that differentiate it from other

approaches: Ease of integration with enterprisewide applications and the ability to span external

B2B and multidomain application environments transparently.

The total set of interapplication and interenterprise security features provided by Cisco AON

includes:

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Trust enablement and threat protection for Web services as well as legacy applications

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Identity and content-based authentication, authorization, and access control

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Data security and confidentiality in the form of digital signatures and message field-level

encryption

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Integration with enterprise security services such as public key infrastructures and

certificate authorities

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Business requirement-directed security policy management and enforcement

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Application logging facilitating compliance and security audit logging

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Protection against threats to applications and underlying networks

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Network and transport security through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), HTTP and HTTPS,

and Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol

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Support for secure file transfer, including authentication, authorization, encryption,

signature verification, nonrepudiation, and auditing using AS2, Web services, and other

protocols

Cisco AON B2B Security

At the data center edge, Cisco AON is an ideal B2B gateway facilitating virtualization of back-end

infrastructures and trust establishment with partner applications. Cisco AON provides a network-