Networking company Cisco Systems Inc. is incorporating its security products into a single, cloud-native security platform called Cisco SecureX.

The key capability of Cisco SecureX, announced today, is that it can unify visibility across its entire security portfolio and also third-party security tools, helping customers quickly identify any new and unknown threats to their networks. In addition, Cisco said, it helps customers to strengthen security across all of their networks, endpoints, clouds and application deployments.

This increased visibility should be appreciated by customers given the sheer size of Cisco’s security portfolio, which includes various firewall, web and email services, malware protection and intrusion detection systems. It should also help customers who are embracing digital transformation and incorporating “internet of things” and other new technologies that expand their potential attack surface.

“Nearly one-third of organizations base cybersecurity monitoring and protection on more than 50 different security products,” said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst and fellow at Enterprise Strategy Group. “This not only adds cost and complexity but also makes it harder to detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents in a timely fashion. Integrated cybersecurity technology platforms like Cisco SecureX have the potential to address these economic, technical and resource challenges by providing more comprehensive threat detection, automated incident response and ease-of-operations capabilities.”

Cisco said Cisco SecureX can analyze events, data and network traffic from all major public cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, plus private data center environments. The platform is able to identify “within minutes” exactly who and what has been targeted, enabling customers to mitigate those threats almost as soon as they occur, the company said. Furthermore, it adds a new “managed threat hunting capability” that incorporates the latest threat intelligence from the Cisco Talos research group.

“In addition to bad actors, complexity has become another risk that security teams have to overcome,” Gee Rittenhouse, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security Business Group, said in a statement. “Cisco SecureX represents a fundamental shift in the customers security experience by removing the complexity and providing one unified view on the state of customers’ security services and alerts. In doing so, security teams can become more efficient with resources and be a business enabler that propels the digital transformation forward.”

Cisco said the Cisco SecureX platform is currently available in beta, and will be made generally available in June.

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