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Centre Stage For Hybrid work, Sustainability At Cisco | |
| Sumita Pawar |
A report says communications technology company Cisco announced a plethora of new tools and capabilities in the areas of hybrid work, cloud, IoT, security, networking, sustainability, and more.
At Cisco Live EMEA, the company's annual training and education event for IT professionals in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), the new tech was shown off.
Wendy Mars, president of Cisco's EMEA region, said, "Our customers depend on us to keep them connected and safe, with uninterrupted access to the apps they need to run their businesses efficiently and continue to adapt and grow."
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"That trust is something we’ve forged over many years, and the close collaboration between our teams and our customers and partners fuels the innovation we have on display here in Amsterdam."
As further mentioned in the report, some of the innovations announced at the event held in Amsterdam mean that Cisco customers can now access new risk-based capabilities to better protect hybrid work enabled through multi-cloud environments. That includes risk-based authentication that provides users with access, secured by real-time contextual signals.
Additionally, Cisco unveiled Business Risk Observability, an enhancement to Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability application security solution, available through Cisco Secure Application. It allows teams to generate an application-based business risk score to help mitigate vulnerabilities in applications or services.
These capabilities seek to demonstrate Cisco’s vision to protect the integrity of an organization’s entire IT ecosystem, according to the report.
According to the report, Cisco announced an IoT Operations Dashboard to help customers increase industrial asset visibility, securely manage assets from anywhere, and converge IT and OT operations.
Cisco ThousandEyes introduced support for OpenTelemetry to provide expanded visibility, correlated insights, and optimized digital experiences.
As the report stated, Cisco+ Secure Connect, the company’s unified SASE (secure access service edge) solution, now supports integration into Cisco SD-WAN fabrics (software-based, virtual IP fabrics) to provide any Cisco SD-WAN customer with access to fast, secure, private application and internet access.
These announcements mainly serve organisations that need to connect their core enterprise operations to industrial spaces, spanning utility grids, manufacturing facilities, and transportation networks.
Commenting on Cisco’s contribution to the sustainability report, it said, "Cisco announced the addition of carbon emissions insights to its Webex Control Hub; this delivers actionable insights on energy consumption and usage of Cisco Webex devices, helping companies track their sustainability goals."
As the report concluded, Cisco announced its goal to train 10 million people across EMEA in digital and cybersecurity over the next 10 years through its Networking Academy program.
This is part of Cisco’s 10-year plan to empower 25 million people globally with the digital skills they need to manage and safeguard the essential digital systems we rely on today.