What are three options that Cisco provides to customers for 'Complete Protection' against today's threats? (Choose three.)

Question

Options

• ASporadic application analysis
• BThreat-centric defense
• CIntegrated threat protection
• DManual security intelligence updates
• EEnhanced remediation
• FAccelerated threat identification

• A
  4% (2)
• B
  93% (42)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Cisco's "Complete Protection" framework rests on three pillars: Threat-centric defense (B) focuses the entire security posture around identifying and countering actual adversary tactics across the full attack continuum (before, during, and after an attack); Integrated threat protection (C) means security products work together as a unified platform rather than isolated point solutions, sharing context and telemetry; and Accelerated threat identification (F) addresses reducing mean time to detection (MTTD), since faster discovery of threats limits damage and dwell time.

The distractors fail because they describe ineffective or non-Cisco approaches: Sporadic application analysis (A) is wrong because "sporadic" implies inconsistency - effective security requires continuous monitoring, not occasional checks. Manual security intelligence updates (D) contradicts Cisco's emphasis on automated, real-time threat intelligence (Talos). Enhanced remediation (E) describes a post-breach activity and is not one of Cisco's three named pillars for complete protection.

Memory tip: Think "TIA" - Threat-centric, Integrated, Accelerated. These three represent how Cisco designs its security philosophy (strategy, architecture, and speed), while the wrong answers describe either bad practices (sporadic, manual) or downstream activities (remediation) that don't define the protection framework itself.

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