The Cisco Enterprise Security Radars (Vendor Focus)

Introduction

This brief analyses the strengths and weaknesses of Cisco's enterprise security offering. Cisco is rated according to its market impact (based on revenues), user sentiment (based on customer perceptions) and technology.

Scope

• Technology: an assessment of Cisco's technology based on specific attributes and the availability of certain features.
• User sentiment: tracks end-users' impression of Cisco's products based on a survey of over 300 enterprise security users.
• Market impact: measures Cisco's market impact based on its revenues and financial performance.

Highlights

Although not a security vendor in the traditional sense, Cisco scores well across a wide range of enterprise security technology categories including security management, VPN and Certification and Information Protection.

Reasons to Purchase

• Gain detailed knowledge of Cisco's strengths with regards to technology, user sentiment and market impact.
• Enterprise security vendors can benchmark their own performance in various key criteria against Cisco's.
• Enterprise IT managers will gain valuable insight to improve their enterprise security purchasing decisions.