Cisco Secure Connect: The Turn-Key SASE Solution for Managed Service Providers

Cisco Secure Connect: The Turn-Key SASE Solution for Managed Service Providers

We understand that Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are always on the lookout for solutions that can streamline their service delivery while ensuring top-notch security for their clients. Cisco Secure Connect stands out as a turnkey Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering that simplifies the deployment and management of multi-customer SASE environments. Here’s why MSPs should be paying attention to Cisco Secure Connect and considering it for their managed service offerings. What is Cisco Secure Connect? Cisco…

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Why IT Leaders Are Evolving the Network into a High-Performance Digital Engine

Why IT Leaders Are Evolving the Network into a High-Performance Digital Engine

In 2024, digital methods of payment are outpacing cash. 3D printers are becoming a fixture in implant surgery and AI is adding color to the world for people who are visually impaired, using just a phone—and the network. Society expects and depends on an ever-increasing fusion of digital and physical experiences for everyday life and business progress. This dependency is apparent in the 2024 Cisco Global Networking Trends Report, which shows a continued correlation between…

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Find Your Path to Unmatched Security and Unified Experiences

Find Your Path to Unmatched Security and Unified Experiences

Imagine juggling multiple remotes for your entertainment system, each controlling a different device and requiring endless button presses to achieve a simple task. This is what managing a complex network security landscape can feel like—a jumble of disparate solutions, each demanding your attention and contributing to confusion. Today’s IT environment is no stranger to complexity. The rise of hybrid work, multicloud adoption, and more sophisticated cyberthreats have created a security landscape that traditional, siloed solutions…

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Staying Connected and Protected in a Highly Distributed World with Cisco Secure Networking

Staying Connected and Protected in a Highly Distributed World with Cisco Secure Networking

We live in an increasingly digital world where the number of connections—driven by a highly distributed and diverse web of applications, devices, and users—continues to grow exponentially. This level of complexity increases as organizations rely more heavily on multicloud services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), with technologies like generative artificial intelligence (AI). There are billions of interdependencies that can suffer outages or other degradation, touchpoints that bad actors can exploit, and many more things to…

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Bridging the IT Skills Gap Through SASE: A Path to Radical Simplification and Transformation

Bridging the IT Skills Gap Through SASE: A Path to Radical Simplification and Transformation

Imagine a world where IT isn’t a labyrinth of complexity but instead a streamlined highway to innovation. That world isn’t a pipe dream—it’s a SASE-enabled reality. As we navigate the complexities of a constantly evolving digital world, a telling remark from a customer onstage with me at Cisco Live in June lingers: “We don’t have time to manage management tools.” This sentiment is universal, cutting across sectors and organizations. An overwhelming 82% of U.S. businesses,…

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Evolve to Cloud-Enforced Security to Empower Your Anywhere Workforce

Evolve to Cloud-Enforced Security to Empower Your Anywhere Workforce

Part 4 of the six-part series – The 2023 Global Networking Trends Report series The next generation of enterprise architecture has arrived. Organizations are moving away from a complex patchwork of best-of-breed point solutions to a single-vendor strategy for a more consistent, secure networking platform that allows their distributed workforce to access hybrid cloud and multicloud applications more efficiently, reliably, and securely. In recent years, the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has been favored for its ability…

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