Speed, resiliency, availability, and innovation are the building blocks for network transformation, with security built in. As your network evolves to meet new demands, so should your network switches. A growing network means an expanding attack surface, which needs protection using advanced malware and threat detection.

Cisco offers the Cisco Catalyst® 9000 switches to address today’s advanced and persistent network threats. The Catalyst 9000 platform helps ensure a more secure experience and brings remarkable speed and scale. Catalyst 9000 switches help you adapt to the fast-changing digital landscape while protecting your network from security attacks. When new technologies, applications, and devices emerge, your network will be ready to handle these changes.

An organization’s network grows along with the business. The network complexity increases as the demand for IT increases. Bad actors take advantage of the growing network complexity to find vulnerabilities such as slow deployment of security patches, IoT devices with the least visibility, or users who are less aware of the potential dangers of phishing and malware. Network security must consider all access requests as potential breaches to safeguard users and data. That is what zero trust is all about.

Cisco Security Platform provides a comprehensive zero-trust approach to securing all access across users, networks, applications, and the cloud while reducing the attack surface. Cisco Secure products align with the five key pillars of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) zero-trust framework—identity, devices, networks, applications and workloads, and data—as well as the three foundational requirements across each pillar—visibility and analytics, automation and orchestration, and governance (compliance).

Deploying a successful wireless network with enterprise-level functionality poses some unique challenges. Network users are increasingly tech-savvy and expect to access content anytime and anywhere. Network functions are often manual and managing secure user access is becoming more complex and prone to human error. As hackers use more sophisticated methods, your wireless network and users could be more vulnerable to attack. To protect its investment, your organization needs information on user preferences to build stronger relationships with wireless users.

As part of Cisco Access Networking, Cisco wireless solutions deliver inclusive, enterprise-class Wi-Fi that helps improve the user experience while giving organizations more insight into consumer habits. Cisco wireless solutions offer IT the convenience of automating several network tasks, improving spectrum efficiency, and tools to simplify your access point (AP) deployments and management. With Cisco Wireless and Mobility solutions, your organization has the tools to support your connectivity needs and beyond Wi-Fi with advanced capabilities that enable you to take advantage of and expand the adoption of IoT (Internet of Things).