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Cisco turns to risk-based authentication to make MFA and zero trust practical

Feb 21, 2023

Multifactor authentication (MFA) may be important for implementing zero trust to block unauthorized users from sensitive data, but it’s also extremely inconvenient. All too often, MFA forces trusted employees to jump through hoops with one-time passwords and passcodes before they can log in to the apps they need.  However, new risk-based authentication approaches such as those released by Cisco Duo today aim to address the inconvenience of MFA by providing a login process tailored to each individual user.

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Cisco Doubles Down on Frictionless Security to Protect Hybrid Work and Multi-Cloud Environments

Feb 21, 2023

  • 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

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Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Updated, New Cisco Catalyst Gear Targeting Industrial IoT

Feb 21, 2023

‘This news is really around how we’re using the cloud operating model and cloud capabilities to allow our customers in the industrial IoT space to gain the same benefits from the same technology as we add to our industrial networking portfolio,’ Vikas Butaney, SVP and GM of Cisco industrial IoT networking, told CRN ahead of Cisco Live 2023 EMEA

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Rhonda Henley Named New Cisco Americas Channel Chief: Exclusive

Feb 21, 2023

Rhonda Henley has been named vice president of Cisco’s Americas Partner Organization (APO), the networking giant told CRN exclusively. Henley, a Cisco veteran of more than two decades, has served as senior director of Cisco’s Global Partner and Routes to Market Sales Organization since 2019. She is replacing John Moses, who sat in the Americas vice president of partner sales seat since 2019. “It’s funny, having joined Cisco -- May will be 23 years ago -- it still feels so new because there’s always so much going on,” Henley told CRN. “It’s so exciting. In my new role, I feel like it’s sort of back to the future because I’m leaving our Global Partner Organization and I’m rejoining APO.” Moses, for his part, departed Cisco at the end of 2022 after more than 18 years with the company, a Cisco spokesperson told CRN.

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Cisco Live EMEA 2023—Simplicity, Security And Sustainability

Feb 21, 2023

"It’s been a considerable time—since 2020—that Cisco held its signature Cisco Live event in Europe. This month, I had the good fortune to attend the event and spend time with the company's executives and customers in the beautiful city of Amsterdam. A lot has evolved recently for the stalwart networking and security infrastructure provider, and this latest event reflected these changes across three themes: simplicity, security and sustainability. I want to share my insights accordingly." Continue....

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Cisco: Companies are spending on privacy protection, but do customers know it?

Feb 21, 2023

Cisco’s 2023 Data Privacy Benchmark Study found that companies that invest in closing the gap are benefitting: The study found that the estimated dollar value of benefits from privacy rose more than 13% in 2022 to $3.4 million from $3.0 million the year before, with significant gains across the various organization sizes. However, 92% of respondents said their companies need to do more to protect consumer data. This finding is about the same as last year, when 90% of respondents expressed that opinion.

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Webex: AMER Partner FY23 2H Sales Kick-off - FEB 22

Feb 8, 2023

Please join your Cisco Collaboration Team for our official 2H FY23 Partner Sales Kickoff. This event is your opportunity to hear from Cisco Collaboration sales, business units, and channel leaders as we review and provide an update on Hybrid Work Journey, Microsoft Partnership, and Collaboration Big Bets. Register here!

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Cisco Advances the Hybrid Work Experience with Audio and Interoperability Innovations

Feb 6, 2023

  • New innovations help organizations achieve a seamless hybrid work experience, including an industry-first partnership with Microsoft that runs Microsoft Teams natively on Cisco collaboration devices expected for certification in March 2023
  • The new Cisco Table Microphone Pro introduces spatial audio and sophisticated noise cancellation to enable remarkably distraction-free, elevated sound in hybrid meetings
  • New interoperability with third-party audio systems ensures frictionless collaboration across customers’ preferred audio devices

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