Security Features

“Understanding the Latest Security Trends in an Evolving Landscape” Online Seminar By Cisco

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Are you interested in understanding the latest security trends, if yes then there is a golden opportunity for you all waiting on 16^th of December, 2008 at 11:00 CET a Webcast series will be hosted by Cisco which is dedicated to discussing the latest security trends and the solutions available to address these emerging issues .

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Topics Include:

• How today’s business challenges are increasing the need for security
• Evolving technology and staying secure
• Driving a systems approach with a Cisco Self-Defending Network
• An update on Cisco’s Security Solutions Portfolio
• Case studies – Insight into how a variety of organizations have used Cisco Solutions to ensure they stay secure
• Live Q&A

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What is Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI) ?

Dynamic ARP inspection is a security feature which validates ARP packet in a network. Dynamic ARP inspections validates the packet by performing IP to MAC address binding inspection stored in a trusted database (the DHCP snooping database) before forwarding the packet. Dynamic ARP intercepts, logs, and discards ARP packets with invalid IP-to-MAC address bindings. This capability protects the network from certain man-in-the-middle attacks.

Dynamic ARP inspection ensures that only valid ARP requests and responses are relayed.

The switch performs these activities:·        

Intercepts all ARP requests and responses on untrusted ports ·        

Verifies that each of these intercepted packets has a valid IP-to-MAC address binding before it updates the local ARP cache or before it forwards the packet to the appropriate destination·        

Drops invalid ARP packets