Cisco unveiled its plan for a global, cloud-delivered, integrated platform that secures and connects organizations of any shape and size at today’s RSA Conference.
Cisco Security Cloud is designed to be the “industry’s most open platform, protecting the integrity of the entire IT ecosystem—without public cloud lock-in,” says Cisco.
Cisco Security Cloud is expected 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, says Cisco.
The company 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
Cisco is building solutions that enable continuous trusted access by verifying user and device identity, device posture, vulnerabilities and indicators of compromise. The 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.
Secure Edge
Cisco is introducing Cisco + Secure Connect Now, a unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. The turnkey offering allows customers to quickly deploy SASE and ease day-to-day operations through a cloud-managed platform.
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.
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 cloud and on-premise firewall management.
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