Protect the public cloud, the data center and the edge. And do it especially when the company you are in a multicloud environment. This is Cisco’s new bet in the security sector from now on and for the next few years. A commitment that has materialized with the presentation of Cisco Security Cloud, a new unified and integrated security platform in the cloud, which reaches companies in a modality as a service.
As explained Angel Ortizdirector of cybersecurity at Cisco Spain, the new platform arrives, among other things, to alleviate two of the main deficits that companies have: insufficient protection of their workloads in the public cloud and a shortage of talent in the field of security, which leaves many companies unable to dedicate the resources they need to stay “safe.”
With an initial proposal that involves integrating the cloud environments of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the company’s plan in the short and medium term involves the development of APIs for other public cloud environments and the release of the tools that companies need to integrate their own private environments into this security layer. In addition and as part of its horizontal approach, Cisco Security Cloud will open its own “marketplace” in which other security solutions or management applications that want to be integrated into this platform may have a place.
The ultimate goal, as Ortiz has indicated, is the development (in an approach that he has recognized is ongoing and will therefore take years) of a security layer “that offers an integrated experience to securely connect people and devices with apps and data anywhere. With unified management, this open, ‘as a service’ platform will provide threat prevention, detection, response and remediation capabilities.”
In this effort to adopt a unified security posture for any organization, the Security Cloud already encompasses many of Cisco’s cybersecurity products and services, such as Thalosits knowledge base on detection and response to advanced threats, and which in this proposal materializes in Talos Intelligence On-Demand; your service to automatically and intelligently promote alerts (Secure Cloud Analytics) or intelligent prioritization when patching vulnerabilities (SecureX Device Insights). And they are not the only ones.
To radically simplify the way organizations connect and protect users, objects, and applications, Cisco is putting its offering in the hands of enterprises. Cisco+ Secure Connect Now, a unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution; and in its effort to provide a better service to distributed staff and/or those in telework environments, it offers new zero trust and passwordless solutions such as the possibility of identifying devices through their Wi-Fi fingerprint or the commitment to biometrics in authentication solutions such as Duo Passwordless Authentication.
In short, and if it wasn’t already, Cisco shows that cybersecurity is its priority line of growth now and for the coming years, assuming in the same way that the bulk of the investments that are going to be made in the medium term are going to be developed precisely in this land.
