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Cisco Canada supports CIISE 

On hand for the announcement were (from left) Mourad Debbabi, Director of CIISE; Robin Drew, Dean of Concordia’s Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science; Nitin Kawale, President of Cisco Canada; Judith Woodsworth, Concordia President; Jean-Claude Ouellet, Cisco Canada’s VP of Sales; Kathy Assayag, Concordia VP, Advancement and Alumni Relations; and Michel Houde, Cisco Canada’s VP, National Public Sector and Eastern Canada.

Students associated with the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) will benefit from enhanced facilities with the establishment of the Cisco Network Security Laboratory, courtesy of Cisco Canada.

The donation of leading-edge equipment and software, valued at more than $400 000, includes a virtual private network, a firewall, remote-workforce security, intrusion prevention and advanced access control. It also includes integrated physical security, Internet Protocol surveillance and emergency-notification systems.