Cisco User Security: Secure, Seamless, and Simplified Access for the Modern Enterprise
In today's dynamic digital landscape, the traditional security perimeter has dissolved. Users access critical data, SaaS applications, and generative AI tools from anywhere, on any device. This distributed environment, coupled with the rise of sophisticated AI-enhanced cyberattacks, creates an interconnected web of potential attack surfaces. Fragmented security tools and inconsistent policies lead to operational complexity, visibility gaps, and increased risk. Cisco User Security offers a holistic, integrated approach that converges networking, security, and identity to provide comprehensive protection, streamline operations, and empower productivity without compromise.
Cisco User Security: What It Delivers:
Unified Zero Trust Foundation for Granular Access: At its core, Cisco User Security establishes identity as the central control plane, enabling a true Zero Trust model. By integrating robust identity management with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and Secure Internet Access, we ensure that every user and device — whether managed, unmanaged, or IoT — is continuously verified and granted only the least privilege necessary. This dynamic, context-aware access control dramatically reduces your attack surface and prevents lateral movement, safeguarding your most sensitive assets.
Integrated Network and Security Operations: Cisco converges SD-WAN and Security Service Edge (SSE) into a cohesive SASE architecture, delivering a single, cloud-managed platform for network optimization and security enforcement. This unified approach eliminates the burden of managing disparate security tools and policies, simplifying administration, reducing operational costs, and ensuring consistent security across all access points – from branch offices to remote users.
End-to-End Visibility and Proactive Threat Intelligence: "You can't protect what you can't see." Cisco User Security provides comprehensive, end-to-end visibility into user and IoT device activity across SaaS applications, private resources, and the internet. Powered by Cisco Talos, our unrivaled threat intelligence is integrated across all solutions, ensuring that threats detected anywhere in your ecosystem immediately update protection globally, enabling superior, proactive defense against evolving cyberattacks, including AI-driven threats.
Secure and Productive AI and Cloud Adoption: Embrace the power of generative AI and cloud applications safely. Cisco User Security provides unique capabilities to discover, monitor, and control gen AI app usage, mitigating "shadow AI" risks, preventing sensitive data leakage, and protecting against prompt injection attacks through robust policies and data loss prevention. Users gain fast, reliable, and secure access to critical cloud resources, fostering innovation without compromising security.
Consistent Protection for Every User, Everywhere: Whether your workforce is in the office, remote, or on the go, Cisco delivers uniform security policies and enforcement. Our solutions extend robust protection to all device types, including BYOD and contractor devices, ensuring a seamless and secure experience. This consistency enhances productivity while maintaining a strong security posture across your entire distributed environment.
Cisco Universal Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Key Benefits:
- Dramatically Reduce Business Risk: Minimize the likelihood and impact of cyberattacks, data breaches, and non-compliance. By integrating identity, network, and security controls, Cisco User Security builds a resilient defense that protects critical data, intellectual property, and your brand reputation.
- Achieve Operational Excellence and Cost Savings: Streamline security operations with a unified platform, automated workflows, and reduced complexity. This leads to significant savings in administrative workload, infrastructure costs, and frees your IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than tactical maintenance.
- Fuel Productivity and Business Agility: Empower your employees with frictionless, reliable, and secure access to the applications and resources they need, from any location. This increases user satisfaction, accelerates innovation, and enables rapid business expansion and M&A integration by providing instant, secure connectivity.
- Simplified Compliance and Audit Readiness: Gain comprehensive visibility and granular control over access patterns, making it easier to meet regulatory requirements. Automated evidence collection and policy validation streamline audit preparation, reducing the time and resources required for assessments.
Cisco's, intelligent, and adaptable solutions are designed to meet the demands of today's complex digital landscape. By converging identity, network, and security, we provide the foundation for a truly resilient and productive enterprise. Take the next step towards a more secure and agile future.
Why WWT for Cisco Security?
With over 600 skilled developers worldwide and many successful business transformation applications delivered, our Application Services (AS) team is a tremendous asset to customers. Offerings include secure software and application development and Cisco platform integrations.
Whether you need help strategizing and implementing security frameworks, solidifying your segmentation business case, assessing the risks and maturity of your current approach, improving operational efficiencies, or building and executing a plan to fill gaps — we can help. Our services range from briefings, assessments, and workshops to long-term consulting and technical engagements.
Our Advanced Services team helps equip organizations utilize their new security technology as quickly as possible to start driving outcomes. We have extensive experience modernizing, moving, and consolidating security infrastructures — both physical and virtual. Get support to seamlessly deploy the latest technology and ensure reliability, flexibility and performance across your enterprise.
With more than four million square feet of space on three continents, we are positioned to provide robust logistics and life-cycle management internationally. Services range from basic, just-in-time logistics to configuration and staging. Security-specific offerings include imaging and configuration, burn-in and testing, and physical/logical integration. In addition, process automation allows us to integrate with customer systems for seamless device delivery and management.
Leveraging the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), we are able to demonstrate the capabilities and features of Cisco Security Solutions. More importantly, the power of the ATC comes through with all the tool integrations such as Mandiant MSV, IXIA Breaking Point, MITRE Caldera, and Cyberflood. This allows us to quickly showcase security efficacy in business processes.