Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 28, 2020: Cisco today introduced an Internet of Things (IoT) security architecture that provides enhanced visibility across both IT and IoT environments, and protects processes. Cisco’s new solutions enable the collection and extraction of data from the IoT edge so organisations can increase efficiencies to make better business decisions and accelerate digitization projects.
Cisco said in a press release that the volume of cyber security threats within critical infrastructure environments was rising and continued to pose significant human safety and financial risk.
“Organisations need complete visibility into the most disparate of network environments in order to secure their industrial edge, lower the risk of cyber threats, and optimise industrial processes” said Liz Centoni, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud, Compute and IoT at Cisco, in a written statement.
Cisco IoT security solution innovations include:
- Securing the Industrial Network Environment: Cisco Cyber Vision is the first software-based security solution for automated discovery of industrial assets delivered via Cisco’s Industrial IoT (IIoT) networking portfolio. Cisco Cyber Vision analyses traffic from connected assets, creates segmentation policies in Cisco ISE and DNA Center to prevent lateral movement of threats across the operational environments, and is powered by Cisco Talos’ threat intelligence, providing real-time monitoring of cyber security threats to industrial assets and processes that affect uptime, productivity, and safety.
- Data Governance from Edge to Multi-Cloud: Integrated with Cisco’s industrial networking, Cisco Edge Intelligence simplifies the extraction of data at the network edge. It streamlines the data delivery to multi-cloud and on-prem destinations to improve the competitiveness of an organization and helping businesses better manage data throughout critical aspects of its life cycle from start to finish.
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