At Cisco Live 2023, Cisco introduced Cisco Secure Access; a cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) product that gives complete safety capabilities converged in a single resolution, offering Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), DNS safety and filtering, and Remote Access VPN functionality in a unified administration expertise with centralized coverage creation and aggregated reporting capabilities.
Traditionally, these safety capabilities have been supported by a number of level options; with merchandise and their respective capabilities stitched collectively to deal with evolving IT necessities and safe the community. While this strategy can and has labored, it considerably will increase the complexity, and ends in an surroundings that’s troublesome to observe and handle successfully because of a number of administrative interfaces, lower than optimum integrations, and gaps in safety because of a number of level product options and distributors. This typically ends in excessive complexity, much less safety efficacy, excessive operational prices, and a poor end-user expertise.
To tackle this downside, Cisco Secure Access was designed and constructed with three essential guiding ideas:
- Better for customers – Deliver a common expertise that seamlessly and securely connects any person to any app over any port or protocol.
- Easier for IT – Simplify deployment and operations with a single console, unified consumer, and centralized coverage administration.
- Safer for everybody – Mitigate threat with superior safety to keep up enterprise continuity and keep away from the repercussions of a safety breach.
Comprehensive integration is vital to efficient safety
A typical enterprise has roughly 76 safety associated instruments of their arsenal to deal with numerous safety wants, and a multi-vendor patchwork strategy to fixing threats locations the burden of safety instruments integration on the end-customer, exacerbating the issue of operational complexity and leading to elevated prices. Previous technology SSE merchandise additionally had many points resembling a scarcity of assist for sure forms of functions, complicated product packaging, and requiring pricey add-on options to get desired performance. With SD-WAN now evolving in the direction of SASE (or SD-WAN with SSE), the transition from multi-vendor options in the direction of single-vendor options can also be accelerating because of the must simplify the surroundings and allow higher safety efficacy and effectivity. In truth, in accordance with a latest Gartner survey, 75% of organizations at the moment are looking for to consolidate safety options and cut back the variety of distributors with the intention to enhance their threat posture.
Cisco Secure Access is the logical next-generation SSE platform of alternative
Cisco Secure Access differentiates from the competitors; it supplies essentially the most versatile ZTNA providing in the marketplace, combining VPN-as-a-Service (VPNaaS) with client-based and clientless ZTNA, which makes it able to supporting ANY utility over ANY port or protocol, together with Internet primarily based, SaaS, and personal functions. In quick, “users simply login and get to work” in essentially the most environment friendly and safe means obtainable.
Unlike conventional ZTNA that’s constructed with a reverse proxy structure, Cisco takes a novel strategy by a extra fashionable Zero Trust entry relay structure. This reduces the assault floor and allows an enhanced degree of enterprise privateness by giving organizations extra management over their information and inspection factors. It allows them to simply create insurance policies that implement whether or not particular visitors is routed by cloud safety or on to their edge safety system.
Secure Access helps the important thing community use circumstances and supplies unified safety capabilities whereas with a unified administration dashboard with a brand new and intuitive admin interface designed with simplicity, effectivity, and efficacy in thoughts. Secure Access is a SSE product that gives complete, best-of-breed safety capabilities resembling:
- Secure Web Gateway (SWG) – offering proxy net visitors, URL filtering, content material filtering, and superior utility controls.
- Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) – supplies cloud app discovery, threat scoring, blocking, cloud malware detection, and tenant controls.
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) – supplies the flexibility to outline and quarantine information that violate DLP guidelines, stopping leakage of delicate info for supported functions.
- Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) – supplies Layer 3/L4/L7 firewall performance with IPS utilizing Snort 3 expertise.
- DNS-layer safety – prevents or limits visits to nefarious websites, or by blocking entry to designated web site classes.
- Remote Access – present VPN and/or consumer primarily based ZTNA for managed endpoints, or clientless ZTNA entry for unmanaged endpoints with non-obligatory system posture verification (e.g., geolocation, browser kind, and/or Operating System kind/variations).
- Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) – protects customers and organizations from browser-based threats.
- Secure Malware Analytics and Sandboxing capabilities – superior sandboxing with risk intelligence into one unified resolution to guard organizations from malware.
- Digital Experience Monitoring – integration with ThousandEyes, enabling unparalleled visibility and skill to translate insights into actions to assist resolve points shortly and guarantee digital experiences throughout any community.
Cisco Secure Access integrates with Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN merchandise and supplies complete visibility, coverage controls, and reporting capabilities; one dashboard to see visitors, set insurance policies, and analyze threat. Built on the Cisco Security Cloud, Secure Access combines all core capabilities to create a frictionless, end-user expertise. It is supported by analysis, experience, and intelligence from Cisco Talos; the world’s largest industrial safety and risk intelligence entity, the place groups of information scientists and safety researchers are in a position to reap the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) applied sciences together with in depth safety intelligence to allow improved safety efficacy with sooner detection, stronger risk correlation, deeper visibility and insights, and lowered publicity.
Massive associate alternative as prospects are transitioning in the direction of Managed Services and enterprise consequence primarily based choices
If you’re a Cisco associate and provide community providers to your finish prospects, now could be the time to contemplate including or supplementing safety providers on high of your community providers providing for the next causes:
- According to a Gartner report, the Secure Access Secure Edge (SASE) and SSE market is very large with a ~36% CAGR and a world-wide alternative approaching ~$10 BILLION by 2025!
- Approximately 65% of enterprise prospects need to undertake SSE within the subsequent two years with the intention to safeguard their infrastructure/environments and enhance their threat posture.
- According to a 2023 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index, roughly 85% of shoppers felt that they weren’t adequately ready to deal with cybersecurity threats because of distributed/complicated environments making securing community connectivity troublesome.
The subsequent chapter in managed safety providers is right here
For Cisco Partners—notably Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)—there’s a big alternative to assist prospects obtain a frictionless end-user expertise, simplify their IT operations, and decrease their safety threat. Customers at the moment are shifting in the direction of leveraging MSSPs who can present Network and Security as-a-Service assist to deal with their evolving enterprise necessities.
Per the 2023 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index:
- More than half (55%) of firms globally fall into the Beginner (8%) or Formative (47%) levels – that means they’re performing under common on cybersecurity readiness.
- Approximately 82% of respondents mentioned they anticipate a cybersecurity incident to disrupt their enterprise within the subsequent 12 to 24 months.
- Approximately 86% of respondents mentioned their organizations plan to extend their cybersecurity price range by no less than 10% over the following 12 months.
To that finish, prospects are looking for the steerage of MSSPs and are on the lookout for enterprise outcomes resembling:
- Comprehensive 24x7x365 monitoring and accountability. MSSPs that may present across the clock monitoring of the infrastructure and be accountable for proactively monitoring the surroundings, managing, and reply accordingly.
- MSSPs additional differentiate by providing tangible and extra advantages to prospects, resembling sooner time to determine and resolve issues, elevated operational efficacy, utility of business finest practices, all whereas bettering total finish person expertise and delivering the specified enterprise outcomes with agreed to service ranges. This ends in decrease working prices, higher efficiencies of scale, lowered enterprise threat, which in the end interprets to releasing up valuable time/sources in order that prospects can deal with their core enterprise capabilities and never managing their IT.
- Providing experience and an much more premium expertise by combining SASE/SSE with XDR, leading to additional enhanced safety efficacy, sooner and extra correct risk detection and response, and stronger safety posture.
Cisco Partner-Enabled Managed Services providing and advantages
If you’re a Cisco associate and want to learn how to monetize this chance, please register for the upcoming session of the Managed Services Voice of the Engineer. In this session, our workforce from the Americas Partner Organization (APO) will present an outline of Cisco Secure Access and the way it may be supplied as a part of a Partner-Enabled Managed Services providing and discover the advantages that may be attained for each Cisco companions and your prospects. If you have an interest in changing into a Cisco Partner, you may study extra by visiting Cisco’s Partner Program and Cisco Partner-Enabled Managed Services.
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