Posted by Mumbai: Cisco’s cloud native platform Cisco SecureX will be generally available globally on June 30, 2020. And it will be included with all Cisco Security products to simply and enhance customer experience, the company said.
Cisco had first introduced Cisco SecureX in late February this year during the RSA conference. And within three months, Cisco has announced the SecureX’s release date or general availability (GA) globally.
SecureX is the broadest and most integrated cloud-native security platform, according to Cisco.
Cisco SecureX comes as organizations juggle to manage business and security challenges at unprecedented scale. This is due to the push of digital transformation and rise in remote workers.
Cisco has a long-standing commitment to connect and protect its customers working from anywhere, on any device, and furthers its mission to unify and optimize its security portfolio.
“With SecureX we wanted to reimagine the way our customers experienced security by making it simple and automated,” said Gee Rittenhouse, SVP and GM – Cisco Security Business Group.
“We knew this would be transformative for the industry, but we could never have predicted just how important this would be to security and IT professionals at this very moment. In this new and dynamic world, customers need a security platform that can protect employees wherever they work and meet the challenges of today and the future,” added Rittenhouse.
Managing an organization’s security is complex – from keeping up with new business processes, tracking evolving threats and navigating a sprawling vendor landscape. Data from the C-suite backs this up.
Security and Complexity are the top two challenges CIOs are facing, according to Cisco’s CIO Perspectives 2020 survey of 1,300 global CIOs. More than two-thirds of CIOs feel they are being stretched too thin. One-way security leaders are battling this complexity is with vendor consolidation.
When dealing with a cyberattack, organizations with more security vendors experienced longer downtime, higher costs and more breached records, revealed Cisco’s 2020 CISO Benchmark Report‘s newly released data.
To address current and future security challenges, SecureX connects the breadth of Cisco’s integrated security portfolio with customers’ entire security infrastructure for a consistent and simplified experience. It unifies visibility, enables automation, and strengthens security across network, endpoints, cloud, and applications.
With SecureX all new and existing customers will benefit from these capabilities and more without incurring additional cost:
- Unified Visibility – SecureX provides key operational and threat metrics across network, endpoint, cloud, and applications. With the SecureX ribbon feature, the platform is integrated in every single Cisco Security technology so customers can access platform capabilities seamlessly across all products.
- Automation to Increase Operational Efficiency – Customers can automate workflows across products from Cisco Security and third parties so they can focus on more impactful tasks. SecureX can save customers hours of manual work by automating threat hunting based on Cisco Talos threat intelligence and other intelligence sources.
- Strengthened Security – SecureX threat response enables security experts to quickly identify impacted targets and remediate within minutes by correlating intelligence data from multiple intelligence sources and telemetry from network, endpoint, email, cloud, and third-party products.
Since SecureX was first announced, the customer and partner feedback have been exceptional:
“A platform approach like SecureX is the future of security at Mohawk Industries, said Michael Degroote, Infrastructure Consultant – Mohawk Industries.
“It will make things easier, faster, and we will see much more going on in our environment than ever before. The automation and custom playbooks we have seen in SecureX will make a difference in a zero-trust environment and will improve security for our company even further. We are looking forward to what SecureX brings to us,” added Degroote.
“One of the most important aspects as a CISO is to make sure I feed intelligence into other agencies. The platform approach gives us excellent, superb stitching-together of forensic investigations,” said Mick Jenkins, CISO – Brunel University. “
“The harmonized network security and collaborative platform is key when all teams can work together to solve a problem. You’re most vulnerable when you have silos. This platform unifies visibility and taps into DevOps, SecOps, and even infrastructure,” said Collin John, Global Security Manager – Alvarez and Marsal.
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