As part of the Cisco Partner Summit, leading communication and collaboration company Cisco announced new enhancements and platform services to help CISOs simplify environments and increase the speed of threat detection and resolution.
Currently, the complexity involved in dealing with multi-vendor scenarios is a significant problem for CISOs. According to the CISCO benchmark study conducted this year, 79% of security professionals are struggling to create the right threat response in a multi-vendor environment. This is an increase from 74% in 2018. 48% of experts are now using “time to remediate” as a success metric.
To reduce the complexity that companies are facing, Cisco Security announced a host of new platform capabilities for analytics, policy, and threat response.
Simplifying Investigation and Remediation
According to Cisco, more than 6,700 customers are reducing the time to investigate and respond to threats across multiple technologies with Cisco Threat Response. Cisco is integrating threat response throughout the full Cisco Security portfolio, with the inclusion of Cisco Stealthwatch, a network traffic analysis offering that detects breach propagation, infections, and data exfiltration.
With the updated Cisco solution, customers can now simplify their threat hunting and investigation strategies, while containing threats faster using AMP for Endpoints’ new endpoint detection and response functions. Customers will also be able to isolate compromised endpoint devices as they remediate incidents and resolve tickets. With advanced search, users will have the data they need to reduce the costs of a breach.
According to IT specialists for the Farmers & Merchants State Bank, Ben Curry, Threat Response highlights the integration between Cisco products, and showcases Cisco’s commitment to building an incredible security stack.
Reducing the Complexity of Security
The newly upgraded security solution from Cisco will allow customers to access more cloud-based security capabilities, including secure web gateways, DNS-layer security, and CASB functionality and threat intelligence. All of these things will come as part of the Secure Internet Gateway package from Cisco.
Customers will also be able to unlock the benefits of zero trust with confidence for their workload and workforce going forward. Cisco was recently named a leader in the Zero Trust Forrester Wave report. The Cisco brand received the highest scores in network security, people and workforce security, visibility, analytics, device security, management, and usability. Customers embracing Cisco’s new solution will be able to access platform-level integrations like AMP for endpoints, Duo MFA and more. This means that customers will be able to safeguard against vulnerable or compromised devices with an automatically adaptive policy enforcement solution.
New Security Services
Cisco’s security upgrade also means that customers will be able to call the Cisco Talos incident response line whenever they need assistance. This will increase customer access to the latest threat intelligence to support their response plans, preparedness exercises and protection strategies.
Cisco combined it’s security platform with a selection of expert cyber investigators to deliver managed detection and response offerings. The MDR service helps customers to make the most of their investments and keep pace with a wider range of threats in the rapidly expanding environment. The solution offers 24×7 threat monitoring and responses to reduce the mean time to contain threats faster with prioritized investigations.
Cisco believes that overcoming the complexity in today’s security technology is a crucial part of helping customers to adopt a platform approach to security that simplifies operations and makes solving problems more efficient.
