News Summary:
- Cisco unveiled its new strategic vision of a unified platform
for end-to-end security across hybrid multi-cloud environments
- The company is designing the Cisco Security Cloud to be the
most open security platform with no public cloud lock-in
- Cisco is taking steps to realize its vision with innovations
across the industry's most complete portfolio, driving security
resilience for its customers
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference
– Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking and security,
unveiled its plan for a global, cloud-delivered, integrated
platform that secures and connects organizations of any shape and
size. The company is designing the Cisco Security
Cloud to be the industry's most open platform, protecting
the integrity of the entire IT ecosystem - without public cloud
lock-in.
"With the complexity of hybrid work, continued acceleration of
cloud adoption, and the ever-advancing threat landscape,
organizations are looking for a trusted partner to help them
achieve security resilience. We believe Cisco is uniquely
positioned due to its scale, breadth of solutions and cloud-neutral
business model to meet their needs," said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and
General Manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco. "Cisco
is already delivering upon key tenets of our cloud platform vision.
We're excited to increase our innovation velocity to truly deliver
on the vision of the Cisco Security Cloud."
The Security Cloud will provide an integrated experience for
securely connecting people and devices everywhere to applications
and data anywhere. With unified management, the open platform will
provide threat prevention, detection, response, and remediation
capabilities at scale. Cisco has been on the journey toward
the Security Cloud for some time and is sharing additional progress
with new innovations across its security portfolio.
Secure Access
Ushering in the next generation of zero trust, Cisco is building
solutions that enable true continuous trusted access by
constantly verifying user and device identity, device posture,
vulnerabilities, and indicators of compromise. These intelligent
checks take place in the background, leaving the user to work
without security getting in the way. Cisco is introducing less
intrusive methods for risk-based authentication, including
the patent-pending Wi-Fi fingerprint as an effective location proxy
without compromising user privacy.
To evaluate risk after a user logs in, Cisco is building
session trust analysis using the open Shared Signals and
Events standards to share information between vendors. Cisco
unveiled the first integration of this technology with a demo of
Cisco Secure Access by Duo and Box.
"The threat landscape today is evolving faster than ever
before," said Aaron Levie, CEO
and Co-founder of Box. "We are excited to strengthen our
relationship with Cisco and deliver customers with a powerful new
tool that enables them to act on changes in risk dynamically and in
near real-time. You can expect to see more innovation and execution
from Box and Cisco that help businesses protect their content
across any location, application, or device."
Secure Edge
To radically simplify how organizations connect and protect
users, things, and applications, anywhere, Cisco is excited to
introduce Cisco+ Secure Connect Now, a unified Secure Access
Service Edge (SASE) solution. Cisco+ Secure Connect Now is a
turnkey offer available in several countries that allows customers
to quickly deploy SASE and ease day-to-day operations through a
cloud-managed platform. The as-a-service subscription is optimized
for value and managed through a unified dashboard.
Cisco offers unmatched breadth and depth in its networking
and security capabilities, which is why Telefonica
Tech will add Cisco's SASE suite to its service portfolio.
"As businesses shift to support hybrid work and work from
anywhere models, we are committed to helping them adapt to the
increased demand for high performing and secure
connectivity," said Rames
Sarwat, Director of Cyber Security & Cloud Products and
Services at Telefonica Tech. "Together with Cisco, we will
offer customers an innovative, managed service that will
combine SD-Branch with Cisco SASE to address a complete set of
next-generation connectivity and security use cases for the branch
and the hybrid worker."
Secure Operations
Cisco added a new Talos Intel On-Demand service offering
custom research on the threat landscape unique to each
organization. To help accelerate incident detection and response,
Cisco announced enhancements to Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
with its ability to automatically promote alerts into SecureX and
map those alerts to MITRE ATT&CK. This follows the general
availability of SecureX device insights to aggregate,
correlate, and normalize data about the devices in their
environment, and the integrations of Kenna and Secure
Endpoint to better prioritize vulnerabilities. Cisco also
introduced the Secure Firewall 3100 Series, designed for
hybrid work with a new encrypted visibility engine that uses
artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect hidden
threats.
Simplification
Cisco is introducing simplification across the portfolio with
the new unified Secure Client. Streamlining how
administrators and users manage endpoints, half of Cisco Secure
agents, including AnyConnect, Secure Endpoint, and Umbrella, will
be unified by mid-year 2022 with additional agents to be added over
time. This follows the new cloud-delivered Secure Firewall
Management Center, which is enabled through the Cisco
Defense Orchestrator and unifies management of both cloud and
on-premise firewalls.
To learn more, visit Cisco.com/go/security.
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Security Resilience for a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Future
- Blog: Evolving Our Strategic Vision to Continuous
Trusted Access
- Blog: Accelerate Your Hybrid Work Initiatives with Cisco+
Secure Connect Now
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