Cisco Secure Connect vs. Cisco Secure Equipment Access

Enterprise with Hybrid Workers or remote workers where most of the resources are in cloud. Branches spread around the worlds with private DCs. Enterprise with mpls or sd-wan connection, the Cisco Secure Connect technology is a further technology upgrade from SD-WAN. Central management of l3/l4 policies, DNS filtering and Web Filtering based on the identity.

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If you have the correct hardware at the edge it is well suited. Tracking which session is configured where and what can reach which end device doesn't scale well.

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• During a project with remote teams, it enabled a quick and secure access to applications across locations
• When we noticed suspicious login attempts, it flagged them instantly
• It made it simple to branch office management by reducing the need for hardware at each location

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• Runs on already existing devices
• Pricing
• Usability

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• Integration with ISE
• Increase the presence of the Cisco Secure Connect PoPs
• increase the available bandwidth per tunnel
• Presence or Deal with ISP Partners in China

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• SSO
• Group agents to load balance
• Session collaboration

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Cisco Secure Connect is designed as a unified, turnkey solution that simplifies the complexities of managing network and security functions in hybrid work settings. It combines Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) capabilities with Security Service Edge (SSE), allowing organizations to manage both networking and security from a single dashboard. This integration can lead to improved operational efficiency, making it easier for IT teams to oversee their infrastructure.

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The use of Cisco Secure Connect allows for Seamless use by users in normal day to day operations, working from anywhere and allowing for company policies to rule everything, helping this way to maintain the company’s security posture, improving business outcome and sense of security of the users.

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API documentation is not explained well. "Normal" usage is a nice experience. No IoT center in APAC so latency is high.

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It is better than any other vpn application

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Better performance compared to compititor

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never used it

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Very quick and easy, its a tidy set up, no messy cables and the sound and video quality is excellent. I use this weekly for home calls and larger team calls across the UK and Europe and have no problems. The engineers were in and out within a couple of hours

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Cisco Secure Connect allows for secure connections to critical systems with a better performance while maintaining security for users and business processes, maintaining the company policies and security posture for improved end user experience without impact on the services. Better tool tested when considering technical requirements and security posture requirements.

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It is flexible across desktop os and mobile os

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• Positive impact on the scalability of our network and easy of connecting
• No additional costs were needed on top of the MX appliance to be able to use Cisco Secure Connect
• Easy to manage and integrate

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• Plan to replace classic jump hosts

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