Description
The University of Southern Mississippi is seeking a vendor to replace its existing data center firewall infrastructure with a Cisco Secure Firewall solution. The selected solution must deliver enhanced threat protection, improved throughput and performance, and robust segmentation capabilities to protect sensitive academic, research, and administrative systems hosted within the University's data center environment. The solution must support a minimum five-year operational lifecycle, align with the University's long-term cybersecurity strategy, and be deployable with minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
Key features and requirements of the solution include:
• Cisco Secure Firewall solution, including hardware, software, licensing, support, and associated professional services
• Compliance with the University's approved brand justification and finalized bill of materials (BOM)
• Enhanced threat protection, improved throughput and performance, and robust segmentation capabilities
• Support for a minimum five-year operational lifecycle
• Alignment with the University's long-term cybersecurity strategy
• Deployability with minimal disruption to ongoing operations
• Pricing that conforms to the specified Cisco solution and BOM provided in the solicitation