Cisco Ironport Email and Web Security
Overview

The Cisco IronPort Difference

Cisco IronPort email and web security products are high-performance, easy-to-use and technically-innovative solutions, designed to secure organizations of all sizes. Purpose built for security and deployed at the gateway to protect the world’s most important networks, these products enable a powerful perimeter defense.

Leveraging the Cisco Security Intelligence Operations center and global threat correlation makes the Cisco IronPort line of appliances smarter and faster. This advanced technology enables organizations to improve their security and transparently protect users from the latest Internet threats.

Cicso IronPort Email Security Appliances

Cisco IronPort email security appliances are the most sophisticated systems available today. In production at eight of the ten largest ISPs and more than 40 percent of the world's largest enterprises, these systems have a demonstrated record of unparalleled security and reliability. The same code base that powers our most sophisticated customers is available in all of the Cisco IronPort email security appliances – enabling protection for companies of all sizes.
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Cicso IronPort Web Security Appliances

The Cisco IronPort S-Series web security appliance provides multiple layers of defense against Web threats. Cisco IronPort URL Filters enforce acceptable use policy, while Cisco Security Intelligence Operations, Cisco IronPort Web Reputation Filters and the Cisco IronPort Anti-Malware System provide protection against Web-based malware. The Cisco IronPort S-Series also has comprehensive coverage for the three most common protocols carrying business information across the boundary and over the Internet - HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. Finally, the L4 Traffic Monitor detects and blocks "phone-home" malware activity. With threats becoming more complex and sophisticated, Cisco IronPort S-Series appliances offer the industry's most comprehensive web security solution, while also ensuring enterprise-class performance. Read more ...

IronPort Customer Spotlight Cisco IronPort solutions are designed with an intense focus on customers. Cisco provides the right combination of resources and technical expertise to help organizations of all sizes manage the startling growth in email volume and withstand the massive flood of spam, viruses and fraud that threaten today's email infrastructures.

Cisco has customers across a wide variety of different industries, helping organizations with the monumental task of managing, protecting, and growing mission-critical email systems.

Below you will find a sampling of customers, from a number of different market spaces, which rely on Cisco IronPort products to power and protect their infrastructures.

Technology: Dell

Dell Inc. is a diversified information-technology supplier and partner, which sells a comprehensive portfolio of products and services directly to customers worldwide. Dell turned to IronPort to secure their email infrastructure while focusing on eliminating spam and illicit email. The company is now using IronPort's C-Series email security appliances and Reputation Filters to prevent unwanted traffic from even entering the network. Read more ...

ISP/Telco: Charter Communications

Charter Communications Inc., a broadband communications company, provides a full range of advanced broadband services to the home, including cable television and an advanced digital video programming platform. Charter uses IronPort's Email security appliances to combat spam, viruses and conserve network resources. Read more ...

Financial Services: BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas is a leading global financial services group, with solid roots in Europe and significant positions in Asia and the Americas. The group has one of the largest international banking networks, with a presence in 85 countries and close to 100,000 employees. In support of its growth, BNP has placed a premium on protecting its email environment as well as the interests and confidentiality of its clients with the IronPort Systems' industry leading email security appliance.

Transportation: Ryder System

Ryder System, Inc. is a Fortune 500 provider of leading-edge transportation, logistics and supply chain management solutions worldwide. Ryder relies on IronPort to secure an advanced email infrastructure to serve its large employee base located in more than 1200 locations worldwide. Deployed at the network gateway, the IronPort C-Series shield internal servers from email threats, without interfering with message system operations or adding additional administration time. Read more ...

Higher Education: Johns Hopkins University

Founded in 1876, the Johns Hopkins University was the first research university in the United States. Today, it has a presence in China, Italy and Singapore, as well as many other countries, making it a world leader in teaching, patient care and scientific discovery, particularly in medicine. Like other academic computing environments, Johns Hopkins has deployed the IronPort C-Series Email security appliances to protect and manage literally hundreds of mail servers installed in dozens of departments serving more than 36,000 users. Read more ...

K-12 Education: Grand Prairie Independent School District

The Grand Prairie ISD has 33 campuses and over 20,000 students. The District turned to IronPort Systems to improve education delivery and meet regulatory requirements. The IronPort C-Series Email Security Appliance insulates the GPISD from increasing attacks on their email infrastructure by spammers and an alarming stream of viruses. Read more ...

Government: Salt Lake County

Located in Utah, Salt Lake County is home to over 910,000 residents and 15 municipalities. With its email serving as a primary communications link between its many departments, managers and constituents, the county chose IronPort Systems to implement a robust, manageable and affordable solution to the solve serious problems posed by email borne threats.

Health Care: L.A. Care

L.A. Care Health Plan is a non-profit, community accountable HMO that serves more than 750,000 Los Angeles County residents. L.A. Care is the nation's largest public health plan and also one of California's largest health plans. L.A. Care chose to deploy the IronPort C-Series email security appliances at the network perimeter to gain comprehensive email security and achieve unprecedented visibility into their email traffic.