Cisco Meraki is pleased to announce Cisco+ Secure Connect Now to provide secure access for users’ everywhere

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an architecture that integrates networking and security. It builds on proven technologies like cloud-based security, SD-WAN, zero trust, and internet insights.

With rapid changes in the global environment, organisations need a solution that provides secure access to internet and as-a-service resources for remote workers, branch offices, and campus/headquarter locations for any application, on any device, and from any location.

Cloud networking solution

How can companies deliver a robust, consistent SASE experience to all users in today’s era of hybrid work? The answer is through a pre-integrated, as-a-service solution.

To this end, Cisco Meraki is pleased to announce Cisco+ Secure Connect Now, a unified, turnkey, SASE as-a-service solution that can be set up in hours. It can be maintained with minimal effort via a highly intuitive dashboard powered by the Meraki platform—the industry’s foremost cloud networking solution. The Meraki dashboard makes it simple to set up the Meraki security and SD-WAN appliance, remote access, and cloud security, or security services edge (SSE), powered by Cisco Umbrella.

Multi-factor authentication

Cisco provides the relevant certificates and domain name for the clientless ZTNA

Adding branch offices is a four-click configuration from the dashboard, and remote workers can either install and connect endpoint multi-factor authentication (MFA) software on their own, or access private applications via browser-based zero-trust network access (ZTNA).

Cisco provides the relevant certificates and domain name for the clientless ZTNA, which greatly reduces configuration overhead. Cisco+ Secure Connect Now ensures that users are correctly identified and authenticated, and that their posture has been validated before they connect to corporate applications. Continuous optimisation of application performance, combined with Cisco’s direct peering relationships with many SaaS providers, enables unparalleled user experience and increased productivity.

Delivering actionable insights

Cisco+ Secure Connect Now is secure, intelligent, and simple to set up. A single, all-inclusive subscription gives lean IT teams the ability to quickly scale access to applications and resources hosted anywhere—across multiple public or private clouds—from any location at any time, while providing protection across every point of service and delivering actionable insights.

Additionally, Cisco’s global reach with local support ensures dependable partnerships and successful outcomes. This is extremely attractive to customers with lean IT environments as they can quickly offer a complete, unified SASE solution as-a-service.