Cyber threats are pervasive, with vulnerable access points and employees working from various locations, making network security increasingly challenging. However, Cisco Security has been a game-changer, blocking an impressive 98% of malware threats. Let's explore how this level of protection is achieved.
Talos and Advanced Threat Intelligence
At the heart of Cisco's security prowess is Talos, one of the world's largest commercial threat intelligence teams. This elite group of security experts, researchers, analysts, and engineers works tirelessly to defend customers against known and emerging threats. By discovering vulnerabilities and halting them in their tracks, Talos plays a crucial role in safeguarding the broader internet ecosystem.
Talos' vigilant oversight extends to every Cisco customer environment, monitoring each event and ensuring protection around the clock worldwide. This is particularly useful for Comstor partners who may be facing a skills dearth.
AI in Security: Enhancing Human Expertise
Visibility is a cornerstone of effective cybersecurity, and Cisco firmly believes in the principle that you can't protect what you can't see. The vendor’s recent acquisition of Splunk underscores this commitment. Splunk's software excels in monitoring and analysing machine-generated data, and by integrating this with Cisco's solutions, we can now help our partners gain unprecedented insights into network activities, enabling the identification of potential threats before they cause harm.
AI has always been a critical component of Cisco's security portfolio. It automates routine tasks and augments human expertise, allowing security teams to concentrate on critical issues and respond to threats more efficiently.
Cisco's dedication to innovation is evident not only in its internal developments but also through strategic partnerships. For example, let’s take a look at its recent collaboration with Nvidia, where it leverages Nvidia’s GPUs to accelerate security analysis and threat detection. This partnership enables us to offer solutions that harness the immense processing power of AI, significantly enhancing our security capabilities.
Seeing the golden thread here? Partnerships matter. Not only between Comstor and our partners but between vendors too.
A New Era with Cisco Security Suites
In the past, organisations often relied on multiple, isolated point solutions to secure their operations. As network environments have become more complex, this patchwork approach has proven inadequate, introducing complexity and creating vulnerabilities. Cisco Security Suites provide a robust solution by consolidating security measures to protect your customers more comprehensively.
The Cisco Security Suites integrate essential security tools into comprehensive solutions that work synergistically, delivering superior efficacy, economics, and user experience. These suites are designed based on zero-trust principles and leverage AI to secure users, protect infrastructure, and expedite attack resolution. Each suite is available in different tiers to meet the varying needs of customers, enhancing and complementing each other’s strengths.
- User Protection Suite: This suite ensures users have secure, seamless access to any application, anytime, on any device.
- Cloud Protection Suite: It offers end-to-end security for applications, workloads, networks, and clouds, safeguarding hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Breach Protection Suite: Designed to simplify operations and accelerate response, this suite empowers security teams.
Each suite is fortified by Cisco's Firepower, the ultimate firewall designed to plan, prioritise, close security gaps, and facilitate disaster recovery.
Leveraging the Cisco Security Opportunity
One of the things I love about my job is that I get to work with customers in supporting them on how to better capitalise on the Cisco Security opportunity. With a staggering $250 billion cybersecurity spend available globally, Comstor is dedicated to helping our partners secure their share of this burgeoning market through an extensive security enablement programme.
The Comstor business globally has significantly invested in building our largest team of sales specialists and Cisco-accredited engineers. Additionally, we offer unique training programmes and data-driven demand-generation initiatives, all provided at no cost to our partners. By choosing Comstor, you’re partnering with a team committed to your success with Cisco Security.
Find out more about how Comstor Security Enablement can support your business.
