Technical Report: Cisco Incident Control System

To combat the ever-increasing virus threats, Cisco Systems® and Trend Micro have embarked on a joint initiative to offer the industry a higher level of protection against network threats and a higher class of service, in the form of real-time threat mitigation. Through this joint effort, Cisco® and Trend Micro bring a powerful new solution to security professionals: the Cisco Incident Control System (ICS). At the core of the Cisco ICS solution is the Cisco ICS server, software that acts as the administrative and delivery center and allows Cisco customers to deploy rapid-response mitigation policies to a large variety of Cisco network devices. Cisco ICS effectively and rapidly allows these network devices to mitigate and prevent newly discovered outbreak-related threats from entering the network.

The Cisco ICS solution's holistic approach and awareness of the network, coupled with TrendLabs' unparalleled threat expertise and response capabilities, make Cisco ICS a valuable addition to the Cisco Services for IPS service offering. Cisco ICS is uniquely effective at preventing virus threats from entering and propagating across the network, as well as eradicating them in the event of limited incursion. Cisco ICS provides the entire network with near-immediate awareness and response capabilities to new threats, allowing a Cisco infrastructure of devices to act as mitigation points more quickly than ever before.