Chapter 11
Cisco Security Platforms and APIs
This chapter covers the following topics:
Cisco Security Portfolio: This section introduces Cisco’s security
portfolio and describes the detect, segment, and protect mechanisms.
Cisco Umbrella: This section introduces the Cisco Umbrella product
and the relevant APIs.
Cisco Firepower: This section provides an overview of Cisco
Firepower Management Center and API categories.
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP): This section
provides information you need to understand Advanced Malware
solution.
Cisco Identity Services Engine: This section provides an overview
of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE APIs.
Cisco Threat Grid: This section provides an overview of Cisco Threat
Grid and Threat Grid APIs.
Cisco has been building the backbone of the Internet
for nearly 35 years. In addition, Cisco has created
networks, big and small, and gained vast amounts of
knowledge about what happens on a network. Along
the way, Cisco has built a robust security portfolio to
keep networks and users safe. Cisco’s security portfolio
has three main pillars:
Visibility
Detection
Mitigation
A lot of organizations don’t have the visibility and the
analytics to know what’s going on across their
networks. Visibility includes understanding who is on
the network, including people and devices, who is
accessing the various servers, who is communicating
with whom, and what type of traffic is on the network.