CRN®, a model of The Channel Firm, has named Cisco as a Finalist for the 2023 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. Cisco is being acknowledged for Cisco Safe Gear Entry Plus within the Cloud Instruments and Administration class.
Cisco Safe Gear Entry was created to fulfill the wants of Operational Know-how (OT) groups liable for managing industrial property. Our prospects and companions inform us how difficult it’s to supply upkeep entry to distant property with out rising cybersecurity threat. Our prospects want to supply entry to important configuration and upgrades, with out permitting dangerous actors to connect with the group’s industrial gear.
Steadily, to permit distant entry, gear distributors set up their very own distant entry gateways onto their prospects’ industrial networks. This method creates three vital issues:
- It provides complexity to the community. Now there’s an extra piece of {hardware} to configure, improve, and repair when it breaks down.
- Extra critically, this introduces cybersecurity dangers. Steadily, the brand new vendor distant entry gateway bypasses the client’s firewall. So, IT now not has confidence that their cyber safety insurance policies are in place, and no visibility of who’s connecting to their industrial gear.
- Including these extra gateways is cumbersome, and tough to scale. Organising level {hardware} in every buyer location is dear, time consuming, and carries the danger of incorrect configuration.
With this in thoughts, Cisco created Safe Gear Entry. Clients can use this service to remotely configure and keep linked gear in quite a lot of use circumstances from manufacturing to linked roadways. The answer addresses every of the above issues simply and successfully. The software program is put in on Cisco industrial switches and routers themselves, so there aren’t any extra level {hardware} options to handle. And since it runs on the commercial networking {hardware}, IT could be assured that any entry to linked gear passes by the IT firewall. So, the safety threat is managed as properly.
And deployment at scale is simple, as a result of Safe Gear Entry is delivered from the cloud utilizing Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard. Because of this it’s straightforward to put in and management throughout the commercial community. And it’s straightforward to make use of, serving to to enhance operational effectivity. Distant staff merely log right into a cloud portal that grants them entry to particular gadgets, to not the whole community. All they want is an online browser, and for superior configuration duties, they’ll use their standard desktop functions. For extra safety, controls can be found to make sure that staff can solely log in at pre-defined instances and multi-factor authentication (MFA) can be utilized to confirm their id.
Watch this video to study extra about how Cisco Safe Gear Entry helps OT enhance effectivity with out rising cybersecurity threat or complexity. And keep tuned as we share particulars of extra improvements in Safe Gear Entry and in the remaining or our industrial IoT portfolio within the coming months.
For extra insights into how DOTs can use Safe Gear Entry with Cisco’s industrial IoT community gadgets, register for our webinar on September 14, Cybersecurity for Clever Roadways.
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