CISCO SECURE REMOTE WORKER
In current times, the workforce is no longer roped to a primary workplace or location. The workspace or where people work has moved from office desks to make-shift home offices.
The idea of business is completely revamped. This temporary change might be the upcoming new normal and so securing the remote worker and workspace is one of the essential things for successful businesses.
A scalable, simple, integrated security solution that implements the strength and spread of the Cisco platform method to protect your workforce/employee at every or any place.
Why do you need Cisco Secure Remote Worker?
It’s seen that more people are now working remotely and so the security team has to make sure that their workforce is protected on any device and any place they choose to work from.
Analytics also reveals that 81% of the breaches are caused due to compromised credentials. Further, 52% of the survey respondents said that mobile devices are tough to defend; and 27% of the companies are using multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices when using any application as of now.
Such revelations make it all the more important to empower your employees with safe and secure access to critical resources and applications they need, be it on-premises or while using public-cloud, to fast-track your business success.
Things needed for delivering secure access to remote working:
- Employees securely working irrespective of location and device
- Verify the identities of users and develop device trust
- Accessing corporate resources by users from their remote location
- Safeguarding devices and users from any type of threat be it on or off the network
Solutions provided by CRSW:
- Secure the Virtual Private Network (VPN) Access: With Cisco AnyConnect Mobility Client, bring about secure access to the enterprise network from any device, for any user, in any location, and at any given time.
- Verify the authorized users: Using Cisco Duo verify the identities of all the users before permitting access to corporate applications based on secure and easy MFA.
- Protect every user off the VPN: With Cisco Umbrella make sure to defend against any type of threats over the internet wherever users go.
- Safeguard endpoints: With Cisco Advanced Malware Protection for Endpoints, shield, identify and respond to advanced threats for seamless productivity for remote workers at any time and anywhere.
These are the solutions for today’s workforce but what comes after that? What will be the next normal? It is always the ‘network’ that plays the critical role in being prepared to welcome the ever-changing reality of the future of remote working or workspace.
Your remote workers should be equally entitled to the same level of performance, security, policies, and finally the same experience they have while in a corporate office. So how do you maintain business resilience and the remote workers’ experience?
Before moving ahead let us look into the challenges that the remote workforce face:
- Challenges for Employees:
Providing traditional access to the corporate network from varied different remote locations can be a very tough and taxing process. One can only connect enterprise devices one by one and find it difficult to use any personal devices like tablets or mobiles. So will the remote employee gain the same level of security given while in a corporate environment? - Challenges for IT administrators:
One of the biggest challenges for IT administrators is managing, provisioning, and monitoring the distributed locations remotely from a single pane of glass. Further, they also find it difficult to implement the same consistent corporate policy for remote workforces. One of the questions to solve is how much visibility do the IT administrators get into inbound and outbound traffic of all remote workforces? - Challenges for specialists and micro-offices:
Be it a teleworking doctor or a teleworking financial analyst working from a micro-office or home, one cannot bear to lose network connectivity. There is a need for enterprise-grade end-to-end segmentation and security against all types of advanced threats. So why not bring about an enhanced experience while on-boarding direct cloud application access?
Cisco Remote Workforce Network Solutions
One of the simple answers to all the above challenges is Cisco Remote Workforce Network Solutions, which is fundamental to the next level of workspaces and the future of business resiliency.
These solutions can extend enterprise network connectivity to the remote workforce at micro-offices and home at scale. Stepping ahead of traditional VPN connectivity, RWNS will extend corporate policies and security to home offices for a flawless corporate experience for IT administrators and remote employees.
With these solutions, remote workforces will get the same level of application security and experience the way they get while in a corporate office. Not just this, IT administrators can manage, provision, and deploy consistent policies across all the distributed micro offices and home offices remotely and securely through a centralized orchestration tool.
Advanced network assurance will be able to proactively monitor remote network health and guarantee service quality of crucial business applications along with voice and video communications. It can also give real-time advice with the focus being on maintaining availability along with suggesting rectifying steps.
Cisco brings two enterprises ready Cisco Remote Workforce Solutions:
- Cisco Wireless Access Points
- Cisco Integrated Services Router
1. Cisco Remote Workforce Wireless Access Points: With this one can bring about secure corporate wireless and wired connectivity at home. With plug-and-play Cisco wireless access points, including Cisco Catalysts 9105, users can connect safely to a corporate network and with enterprise-class identity-based policies; along with this they can also onboard their wireless and wired devices faultlessly including their personal devices. There will be an optimized cloud experience through direct Internet access and Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC).
2. Cisco Remote Workforce Routing Solution: This brings about advanced application experience with comprehensive security. A Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) which is integrated Wi-Fi brings about a zero-trust fabric with end-to-end enterprise segmentation and always-on network connectivity for remote workers.
Remote Workforce Routing solution provides an enhanced direct cloud application via WAN Optimisation and cloud OnRamp. With OnRamp’s potential, remote workers can get the same levels of application performance and security in the cloud just like their enterprise on-premises systems. Its LTE Advanced Pro (5G-ready) solutions ensure always-on, consistent network connectivity.
