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Cisco Doubles Down on Frictionless Security to Protect Hybrid Work and
Multi-Cloud Environments

Cisco customers can now access new devices. Unfortunately, while we are seeing just pushing a button to confirm. Expanded
risk-based capabilities across Cisco’s impressive levels of adoption when it Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities that
security portfolio to better protect hybrid comes to device protection, there is still cater to modern enterprises and improve
work and multi-cloud environments. These much work to be done when it comes to productivity by notifying and enabling users
advancements demonstrate progress identity. The highest level of readiness to reset their passwords before they expire.
towards realizing the full vision of the that companies have across the globe According to the Cybersecurity Readiness
Cisco Security Cloud which will protect is in securing devices, with nearly half of Index, companies urgently need to act on
the integrity of an organization’s entire companies placed in either the ‘mature’ (31 the security posture of their applications
IT ecosystem. “Security products should percent) or ‘progressive’ (13 percent) stages and related workloads. Only 12 percent are
provide a frictionless user experience of adoption. On the other hand, significant in a state of mature application-security
while minimizing risk for the organization,” progress is needed to meet the challenge of readiness, while 65 percent are in the early
said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President identity verification, with only 20 percent of or formative stages. Cisco’s application
and General Manager of Security and organizations in the ‘mature’ category, and strategy aims to ensure greater resilience
Collaboration at Cisco. “At the same time, more than half falling into the ‘beginner’ (20 against the growing attack surface of the
organizations need to look at their security percent) or ‘formative’ (38 percent) stages. experience economy where applications
resilience holistically. This is why Cisco is Not only are these attacks becoming more are no longer an adjunct, but rather they
building an end-to-end portfolio of security frequent and current risk-based signals are the business itself. A significant
solutions and integrating them into a single are failing, but authentication controls are advancement in its applications strategy,
platform. We’re excited to share the latest also inflexible, creating too much friction. Cisco has announced the introduction of
innovations across zero trust, application Security gets in the way, creating usability industry-first Business Risk Observability,
security, and secure connectivity as we issues. Several features of Duo Risk-Based an enhancement of Cisco’s Full-Stack
build towards our vision.” Cisco also Authentication designed to reduce user Observability application security
introduced initial findings from the first- friction and increase security efficacy in a solution. Available through Cisco Secure
ever Cybersecurity Readiness Index hybrid work world are now available: Users Application, which is integrated into Cisco
focused on five core pillars of security can now authenticate less often in trusted AppDynamics, it provides a business risk
protection – identity, devices, network, situations without compromising privacy. scoring solution which brings together
applications, and data. While technology Remembered Devices and patent-pending Kenna Risk Meter score distribution
to secure devices is widely adopted, more Wi-Fi Fingerprint allow users to stay logged and Business Transactions from Cisco
progress is needed to protect identity, in when using familiar applications, devices AppDynamics, and also integrates with
networks and applications. Respondents and networks – without collecting personal Panoptica for API security and Talos for
ranked identity and device management as or private location information. Protect threat intelligence. IT complexity, and
two of the three top cybersecurity threats. against authentication phishing attacks the complexity of managing a highly
Alongside the widespread adoption of with the new Verified Push capability. In distributed workforce has introduced risk to
technology like multi-factor authentication risky situations where Duo can recognize the organization and increased operational
(MFA), criminals are increasingly targeting behavior from known attack patterns, it costs. Most enterprise networks can't
the solutions protecting users and requires the user to enter a code, instead of support the change in traffic patterns driven
by SaaS and hybrid work. Only 19 percent
of companies are placed in the mature
stage of protecting the network, while more
than 50 percent are in the formative or
beginner stages. To provide secure access
to anything from anywhere - organizations
are increasingly adopting Secure Access
Service Edge (SASE) architectures. Cisco
is thrilled to announce that Cisco+ Secure
Connect, the industry's first and leading
unified single-vendor SASE solution, is
extending support to Cisco SD-WAN
powered by Viptela. Cisco+ Secure Connect
uniquely converges Cisco SD-WAN fabrics
and Cisco's leading cloud security services
to provide secure access to anything from
anywhere.

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