Cisco declared new advancements in cloud-based networking, fulfilling its commitment to assist clients in streamlining their IT operations. With state-of-the-art cloud management tools for industrial IoT applications, streamlined dashboards for converging IT and OT operations, and adaptive network intelligence for monitoring and securing all industrial assets, Cisco offers a seamless experience that brings real business agility.
Vikas Butaney, SVP/GM, SD-WAN, Cloud Connectivity, and Industrial IoT Networking, Cisco said “The most effective way to manage growing complexity and provide more insight into business operations is through reliable connectivity and complete visibility across an organization’s operations and assets.”
Butaney said “A strong partnership between all technology teams – security, networking and operations – is essential. With these new innovations, we’re excited to equip organizations with the tools needed for a unified, cloud-delivered approach that brings the power of the enterprise IT network to scale and secure the industrial edge.”
Networks are being expanded by businesses to new locations. They must link industrial spaces, utility grids, manufacturing facilities, and transportation networks to the core business processes. Additionally, they are giving sustainability and resilience top priority in their operations, necessitating a larger requirement for visibility throughout their ecosystems. These networks are difficult to manage due to the scattered nature of these operations, and as these sectors digitise their assets, the cybersecurity attack surface expands.
Cisco is introducing new cloud services in its IoT Operations Dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and securely manage assets from anywhere.
• Cisco Cyber Vision is now integrated with Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard to grant IT and operations teams full visibility into IT and OT devices to manage threats across the organization, providing a unified security posture across the entire network.
• Secure Equipment Access Plus makes it easier for IT and OT teams to remotely deploy, manage and troubleshoot connected equipment. This service now provides access to any connected equipment with IP connectivity, so operations teams can run native applications on their workstations to access remote assets more easily.
Together with Cisco’s expansion of its Catalyst industrial wireless and switching portfolio, these innovations give IT and OT teams more tools and data that they can share to collaborate more effectively to decrease downtime for crucial infrastructure, increase business productivity and efficiencies, and improve overall safety and security.
Having the relevant data at the right time is necessary to optimize users’ digital experiences, but data may not always be easy to collect and correlate. To help customers tackle this challenge, Cisco ThousandEyes now supports OpenTelemetry, the open-source framework and industry standard that partners, customers, and providers rely on to generate, collect, process and export cloud-native and distributed telemetry data.
ThousandEyes is paving the way for customers to link cloud and internet intelligence across a broad array of solutions, providing unmatched data correlation and insight as the first network visibility solution to support OpenTelemetry. With ThousandEyes for OpenTelemetry, Cisco is making it possible to obtain correlated end-to-end insights across separate domains, ranging from user to application, for outstanding digital experiences.
To make network security and policy management easier, Cisco’s comprehensive SASE solution, Cisco+ Secure Connect, now integrates with Cisco SD-WAN fabrics using Viptela technology. As a result, Cisco SD-WAN clients now have access to speedy and secure private applications and internet access, enabling them to provide a secure experience to their workers regardless of their location.
This unified solution converges networking and security to provide customers with a single platform and a streamlined operational model that simplifies and scales the visibility, management and control over a hybrid work environment. This converged operating model also provides IT teams with enhanced visibility and control over the network, making the experience easy for them to manage.
