Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco Security Manager and to the Security Information and Event Management ecosystem partners for their security management needs. For security managed services, customers are encouraged to evaluate Cisco Remote Management Services. 终于,Cisco放弃了这个产品线,2004年底的Protego收购案如今惨淡收场。而在2008年,思科放弃了与NetForensics的SIMS产品的合作。不过,Cisco并不会放弃网络安全市场,相反,应该会物色新的收购对象。09年就有人建议思科收购ArcSight,而今ArcSight已经被思科的对手——HP——抢先一步了,那么他该找谁呢?NetForensics?恐怕这是唯一一家创立于2000年初期的“老”SIEM厂家了(他同时代的对手如e-security, Network Intelligence, GuardedNet, Micromuse, Consul, Intellitectics, OpenService, Arcsight等都已经易主)。