Cisco Talks up IoT as Disruptor, Unveils New Security Portfolio

Cisco announced a new Internet of Things security solution aimed at verticals such as manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities and transportation, combining the ISA-3000 appliance and cloud-based "Fog Data Services" to provide application visibility, policy enforcement, and anomaly detection. The article highlights CEO Chuck Robbins' comments on using network-based machine learning and traffic analysis to detect and isolate suspicious activity, while noting limitations of traffic-only detection approaches.