Today reputation, regulatory compliance, limiting liability and efficient business operations drive the need for a secure network environment.

Apex apply Cisco’s Self Defending Network model to provide your organisation with the security that it needs.  The Self-Defending Network is Cisco's long-term strategy to protect an organisation’s business processes by identifying, preventing, and adapting to threats from both internal and external sources.  This protection helps organisations take better advantage of the intelligence in their network resources, thus improving business processes and cutting costs.

There are three principal characteristics of the Cisco Self-Defending Network:

• The integration of security throughout all aspects of the network
• Collaborative processes between the various security and network elements
• The ability of the network to adapt to new threats as they arise

Apex has helped customers secure their network infrastructures using the following products:

• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firewall platforms
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Cisco Secure Agent (CSA)
• Network Admission Control (NAC)
• Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
• Network Security Modules
• Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS)

The Cisco networked-based strategy allows you to use your existing investment to solve your most pressing security concerns today, while providing an architectural platform that can evolve to proactive, automated, real-time management of threats in the future.