Network as a sensor

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What if your network could do it all? Be digital-ready AND secure your business.

Networks today are supposed to be digital-ready, meaning fast and agile to propel business into a world where everything is connected. Getting there has hit some major speedbumps due to highly publicized hacks. And this has started a virtual arms race, where no expense is spared to deploy numerous, disparate security solutions. Yet somehow, the […]

January 23, 2017 2 min read
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To be Effective, Security Needs to Be a Force Multiplier

Effective security is simple, open, and automated.  We’ve already talked about simple and open. Now let’s talk about automated. Security admins can relate to this scenario. You just learned of an infected system in your environment of thousands of devices. How many others are affected? That’s hard to figure out even in elite operations. What […]

December 19, 2016 4 min read
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Leveraging the Network as a Security Sensor and Policy Enforcer

The topic of cybersecurity has become so ubiquitous that it’s almost a daily occurrence to read or hear about security breaches in the news. Cisco understands this paradigm shift within the nature of computing, that the Digital Economy and the Internet of Everything now requires what we are calling Security Everywhere. Security has to span […]

June 8, 2015 3 min read