By Michael Cooney
Publication Date: 2026-04-29 22:37:00
“Simply put, we are making it incredibly obvious when our customers are configuring insecure features that introduce new and unnecessary risks into their networks,” wrote Anthony Grieco, senior vice president and chief security and trust officer at Cisco, in a blog post when the initiative was introduced. “Initially, customers will receive increased security warnings that recommend discontinuing the use of any insecure features. In subsequent releases, features will be disabled by default or require additional steps to allow for configuration. Eventually, insecure options will be removed entirely.”
Another new feature in the SD-WAN software portfolio is the ability from Meraki SD-WAN sites to define firewall policies once at the organization level and apply them everywhere, instead of configuring each site individually, according to Cisco.
“Managing firewall policies one network at a time does not scale for distributed organizations. With org-wide group…
