Cisco SD-WAN for Government achieves FedRAMP ATO

Cisco is the only vendor that provides a FedRAMP ATO certified SD-WAN solution. Cisco SD-WAN for Government can help U.S. Government agencies accelerate their IT modernization. Agencies can now fast-track the adoption of secure cloud solutions to allow agencies to optimize workloads, move applications, and extend their secure footprint anywhere in a more cost-effective manner.

Why Software-Defined WAN?

We are rapidly moving to a multicloud world. As organizations migrate their applications to the cloud, they are faced with the need to transform their WAN to fortify the security of a highly distributed environment. Cisco SD-WAN is a cloud-delivered overlay WAN architecture connecting branches to datacenters and cloud environments through a single fabric. Cisco SD-WAN ensures a predictable user experience for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services through optimized connections. Cisco SD-WAN provides integrated routing with Zero Touch Provisioning, centralized policy and orchestration, optimized multicloud connectivity, rich analytics, and above all, operational simplicity.

Why Cisco SD-WAN for Government?

Cisco SD-WAN powers 70 percent of Fortune 100 enterprises, and many public sector agencies. Achieving FedRAMP authorization will open the door for U.S. Government organizations to deploy a cloud-based, market-proven SD-WAN solution that meets strict federal requirements. Government agencies are currently faced with many challenges. The U.S. Federal Government is in the middle of implementing its “Cloud-Smart” strategy and all U.S. Federal agencies are required to use cloud services that have a FedRAMP Authority To Operate (ATO). By leveraging cloud solutions with a FedRAMP ATO, such as Cisco SD-WAN, federal agencies can accelerate their “Cloud Smart” journey, avoiding the need to setup their data center with IT infrastructure and have the data center FISMA certified.

Cisco SD-WAN, which earned a  CRN 2019 Product of the Year award, bridges intelligent application aware networking and security together, like no other solution in the market. It delivers a robust, secure, and flexible architecture with the following benefits:

• Better user experience – Application aware routing leverages intelligent forwarding based on latency, loss and jitter, and providing a consistent user experience, regardless of where the application resides.
• Greater agility – Simplify the deployment and operation of your WAN while getting optimal performance using lower-cost WAN links.
• Threat-centric security – Securely connect your users to applications in minutes and protect your data from the WAN edge to the cloud.
• Optimized transport cost – Leverage automated transport path selection (across MPLS and Internet path options within the same network) through application-aware routing that tracks what application experience requires, that is packet loss, latency, jitter, and available bandwidth.
• Proven scalability – Delivers a cloud-scale SD-WAN solution with proven large deployments of up to 10,000 sites.

Enabling customers to evolve to a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture by offering SD-WAN with integrated security based on a zero-trust model, Cisco SD-WAN seamlessly connects devices and people to any cloud, providing a superior application experience while delivering consistent unified threat protection from branch to cloud. Now, with FedRAMP authorization, Cisco SD-WAN for Government is aligned to help U.S. government agencies  on their IT modernization journey, align with the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 guidance, and accelerate cloud adoption with confidence.

Cisco’s Commitment

To all of our government customers, we know it is the mission that matters. Now more than ever Cisco recognizes the need for agility in mission movement, removing complexity, and deploying proven and compliant solutions with the highest level of security. We are continuing to make investments needed so more of our world-class products are available to U.S. government agencies, global public sector organizations, regulated industries, and the critical-infrastructure sector.

Cisco is committed to delivering FedRAMP solutions that helps U.S. government organizations achieve their missions with simple, strategic, and secure digital capabilities. The addition of Cisco SD-WAN for Government to Cisco’s FedRAMP authorized portfolio will enable federal agencies to deliver a cloud-ready network,  increase efficiency, and be mission-ready.

Cisco is pleased to announce Cisco SD-WAN for Government is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace. Cisco also offers FedRAMP authorized solutions for communications (Cisco Webex Meetings) and collaboration (Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution for Government, and Cisco Webex for Defense formerly known as Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution for Defense).

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