It's like the scene in a movie when the good guy pulls out a knife thinking he has the upper hand over the villain.... and out of nowhere the bad guy pulls out an AR-15 automatic rifle!  Fight over. Good guy goes down and loses.  Welcome to cybersecurity in Public Sector.  Agencies in Public Sector (good guys) are fighting a losing battle at every level (e.g. Federal, State, and local) using a silo based security strategy focused on "buying top quadrant ranked security devices" in a world of automation, analytics, and global zero day threats.  These security devices create mountains of log data which contain clues to potential attacks as well as tons of false positives. An extremely competitive cybersecurity job market adds additional risk and stress to executives managing environments in public sector.

To address these needs, Cisco combined two of our strong brands -Active Threat Analytics (ATA) and Classified Network Services (CNS) -into an offering that is now available to Public Sector customers. Cisco Active Threat Analytics provides 24