Busy IT professionals have a new option for keeping tabs on internet-based threats as of today, with the new SIO To Go iPhone app from Cisco Systems.

The app will include numerous features, such as the ability to compare websites and email addresses to an extensive watch list kept by Cisco’s Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) division. Marie Hattar, Cisco’s vice president for network systems and security, said that the new app will provide IT managers with new confidence and flexibility in their ability to respond to external threats.

Cisco’s SIO maintains a network of 700,000 sensors scattered across important locations throughout the internet, which CNET’s Elinor Mills says are used to build extensive databases of security threats and collate real-time data into alerts about widespread malicious attacks via the web or email.

Cisco has moved to shore up its security capabilities in recent weeks, most notably via a $183 million purchase of international web security provider ScanSafe. The company also acquired Norwegian videoconferencing firm Tandberg for $3 billion and mobile wireless hardware maker Starent Networks for $2.9 billion.

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