Cisco is happy to announce FedRAMP Authorization to Operate (ATO)* for our cloud-based Cisco SD-WAN for Government resolution. This resolution will assist U.S. authorities companies and significant infrastructure securely speed up their IT modernization and cloud adoption. State and native governments transferring to the cloud may achieve better effectivity and safety by deploying this, and different, Cisco FedRAMP options which have met the federal authorities’s rigorous requirements for authorization.
Software-Defined WAN: Why now
Cisco SD-WAN for Government has achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization by means of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General. This authorization provides to our rising record of Cisco FedRAMP Authorized options, creating a robust alternative to combine SD-WAN into many different features of your group.
The Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market is rising quickly, because of the rising charge of adoption of cloud providers. But as organizations migrate their functions to the cloud, they’re confronted with the necessity to remodel their WAN to make it extra software clever.
That’s why cloud providers require a brand new strategy to attach customers, branches, and cloud cases securely to supply an optimum end-user expertise. With SD-WAN your authorities company can securely join any consumer to any software — and improve their productiveness by optimizing cloud and on-premises software efficiency (whether or not it’s delivered out of your current information facilities, SaaS, or IaaS public clouds).
How Cisco SD-WAN for Government provides worth
According to Dell ‘Oro Group’s most up-to-date SASE and SD-WAN Report, Cisco SD-WAN has the best market share with over 40,000 worldwide deployments (as illustrated within the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant).
By attaining our FedRAMP Authorization to Operate, a path has lastly been cleared for U.S. authorities companies to deploy a market-leading, cloud-based resolution. Cisco SD-WAN for Government bridges clever, software conscious networking and safety to ship a versatile structure with the next key advantages.
- Better consumer expertise: Provides a constant consumer expertise, no matter the place the appliance resides, with application-aware routing that leverages clever forwarding based mostly on latency, loss, and jitter.
- Threat-centric safety: Securely connects your customers, units, and functions with Cisco’s embedded safety stack (Firewall, IPS, URL-filtering, malware safety, and cloud safety).
- Extensive cloud integrations: Enhances multi-cloud software expertise with expertise partnerships from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Equinix, and Megaport throughout any location.
- Greater agility: Simplifies the deployment and operation of your WAN whereas attaining optimum efficiency utilizing lower-cost WAN hyperlinks.
- Proven scalability: Delivers a cloud-scale SD-WAN resolution with confirmed massive deployments of as much as 8000+ websites.
- Actionable insights: Provides end-to-end visibility into software, web, and cloud environments, enabling companies to determine and troubleshoot points extra shortly.
Built round a Zero Trust mannequin, Cisco SD-WAN for Government seamlessly connects units and folks to any cloud, offering a superior software expertise whereas delivering constant unified menace safety from department to cloud. This consists of aligning with Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 steerage.
Cisco’s dedication to authorities
In addition to Cisco SD-WAN for Government, our portfolio of FedRAMP Authorized, Ready, and In Process options consists of:
At Cisco, we’re dedicated to delivering FedRAMP options that assist U.S. authorities companies obtain their missions with easy, strategic, and safe digital capabilities. The addition of Cisco SD-WAN for Government to Cisco’s record of FedRAMP Authorized options will allow federal companies, in addition to state and native governments, to ship safe cloud-agnostic community connectivity to customers and functions in every single place.
Additional SD-WAN for Government assets
*Please Note: Cisco SD-WAN for Government has been granted FedRAMP Authorization to Operate as of March 9, 2023. The change from ‘In Process’ to ‘Authorized’ can take as much as two months to seem on the FedRAMP Marketplace web site. However, Cisco SD-WAN for Government is permitted and obtainable on your company’s use at this time.
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