BreachBytes

If you have the money ($75K+) and a big data center moving a lot of data, Cisco’s Nexus 7000 series switch offers wickedly fast processing power and a lot of compelling security features. Hopefully this signals an increased interest in network security by the switch vendors.

Running NX-OS version 4.0, the Nexus 7000 switch supports a wide variety of useful security features you’d expect from a high-end switch: 802.1x, RADIUS, MAC-based ACLs for policy enforcement, etc. More important to us at BreachBytes is the native hardware support for NetFlow. I commented Monday on the fact that sFlow is generally more prevalent in switches than NetFlow, however Cisco seems to be challenging this assertion with their OS upgrade and supporting products like the Nexus 7000.

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