NEWS SUMMARY:
- Finding the balance between usability and security is now
easier than ever with the general availability of Risk-Based
Authentication – giving users the access they need, secured by
real-time contextual signals
- Significant advancement in its applications strategy, Cisco
introduces industry-first Business Risk Observability, an
enhancement of Cisco's Full-Stack Observability application
security solution
- While technology to secure devices is widely adopted, initial
findings from Cisco's first-ever Cybersecurity Readiness
Index revealed that more progress is needed to protect
identity. networks and applications
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 7, 2023
/CNW/ -- CISCO LIVE -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) customers
can now access new risk-based capabilities across Cisco's security
portfolio to better protect hybrid work and multi-cloud
environments. These advancements demonstrate progress towards
realizing the full vision of the Cisco Security Cloud
which will protect the integrity of an organization's entire IT
ecosystem.
"Security products should provide a frictionless user experience
while minimizing risk for the organization," said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and
General Manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco. "At the
same time, organizations need to look at their security resilience
holistically. This is why Cisco is building an end-to-end portfolio
of security solutions and integrating them into a single platform.
We're excited to share the latest innovations across zero trust,
application security, and secure connectivity as we build towards
our vision."
Cisco also introduced initial findings from the first-ever
Cybersecurity Readiness Index focused on five core pillars
of security protection – identity, devices, network, applications,
and data. While technology to secure devices is widely
adopted, more progress is needed to protect identity, networks and
applications.
Zero Trust
Respondents ranked identity and device management as two of the
three top cybersecurity threats. Alongside the widespread adoption
of technology like multi-factor authentication (MFA), criminals are
increasingly targeting the solutions protecting users and
devices.
Unfortunately, while we are seeing impressive levels of adoption
when it comes to device protection, there is still much work to be
done when it comes to identity. The highest level of readiness that
companies have across the globe is in securing devices, with nearly
half of companies placed in either the 'mature' (31 percent) or
'progressive' (13 percent) stages of adoption. On the other hand,
significant progress is needed to meet the challenge of identity
verification, with only 20 percent of organizations in the 'mature'
category, and more than half falling into the 'beginner' (20
percent) or 'formative' (38 percent) stages.
Not only are these attacks becoming more frequent and current
risk-based signals are failing, but authentication controls are
also inflexible, creating too much friction. Security gets in the
way, creating usability issues. Several features of Duo
Risk-Based Authentication designed to reduce user friction and
increase security efficacy in a hybrid work world are now
available:
- Users can now authenticate less often in trusted situations
without compromising privacy. Remembered Devices and
patent-pending Wi-Fi Fingerprint allow users to stay logged
in when using familiar applications, devices and networks – without
collecting personal or private location information.
- Protect against authentication phishing attacks with the new
Verified Push capability. In risky situations where Duo can
recognize behavior from known attack patterns, it requires the user
to enter a code, instead of just pushing a button to confirm.
- Expanded Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities that
cater to modern enterprises and improve productivity by notifying
and enabling users to reset their passwords before they
expire.
Application Security
According to the Cybersecurity Readiness Index, companies
urgently need to act on the security posture of their applications
and related workloads. Only 12 percent are in a state of mature
application-security readiness, while 65 percent are in the early
or formative stages. Cisco's application strategy aims to ensure
greater resilience against the growing attack surface of the
experience economy where applications are no longer an adjunct, but
rather they are the business itself.
A significant advancement in its applications strategy, Cisco
has announced the introduction of industry-first Business Risk
Observability, an enhancement of Cisco's Full-Stack
Observability application security solution. Available through
Cisco Secure Application, which is integrated into Cisco
AppDynamics, it provides a business risk scoring solution which
brings together Kenna Risk Meter
score distribution and Business Transactions from Cisco
AppDynamics, and also integrates with Panoptica for API security
and Talos for threat intelligence.
Secure Connectivity
IT complexity, and the complexity of managing a highly
distributed workforce has introduced risk to the organization and
increased operational costs. Most enterprise networks can't
support the change in traffic patterns driven by SaaS and hybrid
work. Only 19 percent of companies are placed in the mature
stage of protecting the network, while more than 50 percent are in
the formative or beginner stages.
To provide secure access to anything from anywhere -
organizations are increasingly adopting Secure Access Service Edge
(SASE) architectures. Cisco is thrilled to announce that Cisco+
Secure Connect, the industry's first and leading unified
single-vendor SASE solution, is extending support to Cisco SD-WAN
powered by Viptela. Cisco+ Secure Connect uniquely converges Cisco
SD-WAN fabrics and Cisco's leading cloud security services to
provide secure access to anything from anywhere.
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Cisco Secure at Cisco Live EMEA 2023
- Report: Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index
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