Many organizations are deploying a broad range of new converged applications to increase productivity and decrease costs in their IT environments. These include IP telephony applications, video streaming, collaboration, mobility, and a variety of next-generation applications that promise to significantly enhance organizational and personal productivity.

While these organizations must address a variety of issues to successfully integrate these converged applications on the unified network (including QoS, bandwidth, and resiliency), the one overriding concern is security.

A comprehensive security undertaking needs to cover information records (data), applications, and the entire networking infrastructure. In turn, the networking infrastructure includes multilayer switches, server load balancers, connectivity gateways, SSL off-loaders, VPN gateways, and other networking devices that provide some type of network service.

Brocade IronShield 360

To help organizations address these network security challenges, Brocade IronShield 360 security architecture combines with leading security provider products from McAfee to protect a wide range of network environments.

Together, Brocade and its security partners enable organizations to deploy and manage secure networks in support of critical services. With proven solutions that deliver a reliable, resilient network infrastructure that is secured from the edge to the core, from client to server, Brocade and McAfee provide preemptive security solutions that help ensure business continuity and regulatory compliance.

Combining IronShield 360 protection capabilities with industry-leading security products in the areas of Layer2 through Layer7 protection provides a defendable architecture that enables organizations to focus on their business priorities and accomplish their goals. This protection includes fortifying MAC layer and IP forwarding capabilities, malware detection and removal, Denial of Service (DoS) mitigation, and guarding against data theft.

The Brocade partner ecosystem of security solutions provides advanced data and application protection with high-performance, low-latency network admission control, firewalling, intrusion detection and prevention, and DoS mitigation.

• Partner Briefs

  • Brocade and IBM Internet Security Systems Solutions (1.5 MB)

  • Brocade and McAfee: An Industry-Leading Enterprise Networking and Threat-Prevention Solution (1.5 MB)

• Solution Briefs

  • Brocade and Blue Coat Solutions: Optimizing SharePoint (1.4 MB)

  • Comprehensive Enterprise Security via Web, Messaging, and Gateway Best-of-Breed Solutions (631 KB)

  • Partner Brief: Impulse Point (387.1 KB)

  • Partner Brief: Q1 Labs (685.2 KB)

  • Partner Brief: Stillsecure (483.3 KB)

  • Partner Brief: Symantec (732.1 KB)

  • Secure, Integrated, Scalable Solutions Deliver Rich Content in Large-Scale Deployments (670 KB)

• White Papers

  • Brocade IronShield 360 - Foundry Enterprise Network Security Solutions (1029.7 KB)