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Cisco wins award for RedSeal deployment, honored in InfoWorld's top 100 IT projects of 2009 for its deployment of a RedSeal software-based operational security oversight dashboard, 11/09

Company: Cisco Systems

Project: Operational Security Oversight Dashboard

Project lead: Michael Machado, Manager of Security Engineering and Operations, Cisco Collaboration Software Group (WebEx)

Project description: Cisco built a RedSeal software-based security oversight dashboard to continuously analyze the configurations of its Cisco Collaboration Cloud firewalls and routers, as well as the results of daily vulnerability scans, identifying patching priorities, validating the enforcement of corporate network security polices, and ensuring compliance with PCI and other regulations.

Industry: Technology




Doug Dexter, internal audit team lead for Cisco, gave a great presentation on how Cisco is automating their internal network audits at the National Summit on Planning and Implementing 20 Critical Controls (Consensus Audit Guidelines).

If you’re interested in how Cisco makes sure a network of that size is truly secure, you can see the slides from Doug’s presentation here.

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