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Tomorrow and accidents, you never know who will come first. The sudden arrival of novel coronavirus in 2020 disrupted everyone's original pace of life and work. "United as one, fighting the epidemic together" has become the main theme of the people all over the country and even around the world. The global losses caused by this epidemic can be said to be incalculable, and for some enterprises, its impact is even more "fatal". How to ensure the normal operation of business during the epidemic has become one of the issues of concern to enterprises.

If a company with more than 70,000 employees around the world told you that their employees could still work normally during the outbreak and were not affected, would you believe it? I think a lot of people will question it, but there is one company that has actually done it: Cisco. In an online exchange with Cisco, Bu Xianlu, vice president of Cisco Greater China and general manager of the security division, told reporters: after the Spring Festival, if you ask any of the Cisco employees: "have you gone to work?" have you returned to work? " He will answer you: "We are at work all the time, and we have never stopped work, and for us, there is no such thing as going back to work."

Bu Xianlu, Vice President and General Manager of Security Division of Cisco Greater China

According to Bu Xianlu, 95% of Cisco's employees work remotely. For Cisco, work is actually an act, regardless of location. The security of all this is done under the guidance of Cisco's "zero trust" architecture. Based on Cisco's "zero trust" security architecture and years of technology accumulation, Cisco has unique advantages in the new normal, from collaboration to security to the cloud. In addition to ensuring the normal operation of Cisco's own business, what has Cisco done to help customers return to work safely throughout the epidemic?

According to Bu Xianlu, Cisco announced the launch of the Business resilience Program (Business Resiliency Program) in April this year, which is designed to help customers and partners cope with the changing economic environment, alleviate the financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, and provide enterprises with the solutions they need to maintain efficient business operations, ensure employee safety, and provide support to the community in this special period.

Help customers return to production and work: technology is the means, trust is the foundation

Among the many customers of Cisco, some have a high degree of digitization and a strong network foundation, the employees have been working from home, the management also makes decisions online, and the production and operation of the enterprise can be completed through the digital platform. So during the outbreak, they were very little affected. There are some online-related industries, such as e-commerce and online education, even go against the trend and press the acceleration button. These companies embraced the digital transformation earlier, so there was an accelerated development during the epidemic.

In view of the resumption of work, telecommuting and learning under the new normal, Cisco believes that technology is the means and trust is the foundation. Under the premise of technical support, enterprises should build a culture of mutual trust and have a set of processes so that everyone can work anywhere without a decline in productivity. In order to help customers complete the resumption of production faster and more safely, during the epidemic, Cisco launched a free trial solution to help more customers build emergency recovery systems at the same time. Let them experience safety measures.

"to put it simply, we provide an end-to-end system, including one based on the next generation of firewalls, to help enterprises build a secure channel and divide various security domains. In addition, key applications can be protected, including mail systems, collaboration systems, and systems of various applications." This is what Bu Xianlu says.

"it is also important that during the outbreak, various APP are attacked more frequently than ever before, and Cisco's terminal security architecture system can identify some very advanced, malicious attacks. In addition, the training of enterprises to enhance the overall safety awareness of employees and the use of zero-trust security means also need to be improved. So we launched such an end-to-end solution during the epidemic to help customers respond to emergencies and build the ability to work anywhere and at any time in the future. " According to incomplete statistics, more than 15 million new users have used Cisco's security solutions since March 10, including more than 400000 Chinese users.

Three "W" understand "Zero Trust"

In this epidemic, Cisco's security solution can be said to be widely recognized by users, as well as the popular concept of "zero trust" among business users.

Bu Xianlu said that in the online world, we should minimize the rights of every user in the online world, first give him "zero trust", and then give him a degree of trust based on the user's role and status. His permissions are also different when he accesses different applications. Access to an application requires a process of authentication and authorization, which runs continuously and continuously, so as to ensure that the rights of each user are minimized and the risk to the system is minimized. and it's a controllable, visual state. Therefore, Cisco's "zero trust" security architecture is a three-step cycle of "establishing trust, implementing trust-based access, and continuous trust verification".

According to the introduction, the entire "zero trust" security architecture advocated by Cisco is a three-step cycle of establishing trust, implementing trust-based access, and continuous trust verification. The Cisco "zero trust" security architecture will be implemented in phases from the perspective of the three "W" by giving different authentication and authorization to different users in these three key domain architectures:

"Workforce employees and devices": establish trust for users and their devices to access applications and resources; "Workplace workplace": establish minimum privileged access control to the network for all users and devices, including the Internet of things; "Workload workload": that is, for enterprise critical applications, implement minimum access and minimize attack surface.

Xu Hongtao, Technical Director of Cisco's Greater China Security Division, said that Cisco's "zero trust" security architecture has three main advantages:

● first, the solution covers a wide range: Cisco's "zero trust" architecture covers "zero trust" for employees, "zero trust" for devices, "zero trust" for the network, "zero trust" for data, and "zero trust" for workloads (servers), which can cover multiple links. He mentioned that for Cisco, apart from having little contact with user data, Cisco can provide a complete solution in several other aspects.

Second, the deployment mode of ● is simple: based on user identity, Cisco adopts a cloud-based approach, which does not need to deploy any devices in the user network, and many applications can be deeply integrated with Cisco's "zero trust" directly. In addition, based on the "zero trust" of the network, Cisco combines "zero trust" with Cisco's traditional network infrastructure solution. Users are building a network to ensure a high-performance network, while also obtaining "zero trust" security.

● third, excellent security technology: Cisco's security technology is currently a leader in the industry, in addition to Cisco Talos, the world's leading threat research team, which provides strong backing for Cisco's security research and security product services, helping Cisco's security solutions quickly discover, identify and block the latest and most complex attacks.

Write at the end

For enterprises, sudden black swans often bring a fatal blow, how to do a good job of network security, prevention has become a problem that every enterprise has to consider and solve. Cisco's complete security solution and "zero trust" security architecture just give customers a perfect answer.

Finally, in order to help enterprises establish a better network security protection system, Bu Xianlu gives some suggestions: for all enterprises, online and offline operation, it is necessary to build an ability to telecommute anywhere without affecting efficiency. For some large and medium-sized enterprises, Cisco proposes to build a system according to the business continuity plan (this is not only the IT system, but also the supply chain system, production and operation system), and can improve the enterprise security maturity by establishing a "zero trust" architecture.

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