Chris Young, SVP of Cisco's Security Business Group, posted an official announcement this morning on Cisco's The Platform blog heralding the close of the Sourcefire acquisition.

 "I am excited to announce that Cisco has completed the acquisition of Sourcefire. With this acquisition, we take a significant and exciting step in our journey to define the future of security. As one company, we offer an unbeatable combination that will greatly accelerate our mission of delivering a new, threat-centric security model", said Young.

Young also goes in-depth regarding the new capabilities immediately available to current Cisco customers as well as what the acquisition means for Cisco Security roadmap:

• Leverage current ASA and FirePOWER hardware for future solutions
• Give Cisco customers immediate access to Sourcefire's NGIPS, NGFW, and AMP solutions
• Committing to support open-source projects like Snort, ClamAV, and others
• Broader solution sets incorporating the newly acquired technologies

This year, Cisco has increased investment in security innovation to provide market-leading threat-focused capabilities.

Young also promised Cisco Security will focus on a "threat-centric" security model moving forward -which means a priority focus on the threats themselves versus policy or controls. "Through our threat-centric model," he said "we will provide broad coverage across all potential attack vectors, rapidly adjust to and learn from new attack methods, and implement that intelligence back into the infrastructure after each attack."

Read the full post with all the exciting details here:  http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-closes-sourcefire-acquisition-delivers-threat-centric-security-model