Doubling down on resilient infrastructure

Global networks have faced relentless attacks for years with recent and dramatic increases in sophistication, scale, and speed. The current dynamic requires urgent change. Organizations must assess their current risk posture and use technology vendors’ guidance and tools to securely implement, maintain, and operate their networks. We recognize that the vast amount of information across products and services from different vendors can create insurmountable complexity for customers attempting to secure their infrastructure. To that end, we are simplifying our offerings so that secure configurations, protocols, and features are the default. We are proactively alerting network administrators when insecure choices are being made and deprecating legacy methods that have served as operational mainstays for over two decades, all to create a more secure, resilient, and modern network.

At Cisco, we have spent years making technology that allowed our customers the ultimate flexibility in…