Cisco Reveals its Vision on Security Cloud
The Security Cloud will provide an integrated experience for securely connecting people and devices everywhere to applications and data anywhere.
Cisco has revealed 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, the 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.”
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.”
The Security Cloud will provide an integrated experience for securely connecting people and devices everywhere to applications and data anywhere.
Cisco has been on the journey toward the Security Cloud for some time and is sharing additional progress with innovations across its security portfolio.
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 log in, Cisco is building session trust analysis using the open Shared Signals and Events standards to share information between vendors.
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 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.
Cisco is introducing simplification across the portfolio with the new unified Secure Client.
