The momentum of the Cisco and Microsoft collaboration solely continues to extend. We’re bringing in combination our talent to innovate and to assist our mutual consumers succeed in even upper ranges of good fortune. In combination, we’re turning in outstanding utility reviews in networking, safety, collaboration, and extra.

These days, I’m excited to proportion that Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN—previously Viptela—has been  built-in with Microsoft Sentinel and is to be had to our consumers and companions in Microsoft Sentinel Content material hub during the Microsoft Industrial Market. Cisco is already a member of the Microsoft Clever Safety Affiliation (MISA), an ecosystem of impartial tool distributors and controlled safety carrier suppliers that experience built-in their safety answers with Microsoft.

“Cisco has identified and addressed the rising demanding situations going through endeavor safety. Their integration with Microsoft Sentinel is a testomony to this, bringing a precious software that can assist fortify the features and safety of our mutual consumers working Cisco’s SD-WAN answers.”
–Eric Burkholder, Senior Program Supervisor, Microsoft Sentinel

Integrating Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with Microsoft Sentinel

Again in 2021, Cisco used to be an early integrator of SD-WAN with Microsoft Azure Digital WAN,  developing hybrid WAN structure that delivers a contemporary transit structure to toughen Azure connectivity. This integration permits customers to seamlessly prolong their SD-WAN overlay into Azure to beef up cloud connectivity from faraway places of work. Necessarily, Cisco made it simple to attach SD-WAN to Azure.

Now, with the mixing of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Microsoft Sentinel, we’re improving the safety of our consumers’ networks through leveraging the protection stack working on SD-WAN material to beef up visibility and threat-hunting features supplied through Sentinel.

Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native resolution that delivers clever safety analytics and menace intelligence around the endeavor to supply:

• Safety data and tournament control (SIEM)
• Safety orchestration, automation, and reaction (SOAR)

With Microsoft Sentinel, customers have a unmarried console that helps assault detection, menace visibility, proactive searching, and menace reaction.

However for Microsoft Sentinel to extra totally ship on its promise of seeing and preventing threats, it should get right of entry to community and safety knowledge touring over the WAN. That is the place Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is available in.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN provides a extremely safe, cloud-scale structure this is open, programmable, and scalable. Throughout the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Supervisor—previously referred to as vManage—console, customers can briefly determine an SD-WAN overlay material and use it to attach knowledge facilities, branches, campuses, and colocation amenities. As well as, they may be able to leverage the similar console to use granular complex safety inspection profiles that beef up community velocity, safety, visibility, and potency.

Integrating Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN with Microsoft Sentinel provides enterprises a complete safety resolution. At the side of MITRE ATT&CK protection, organizations take pleasure in clever safety analytics, menace intelligence integration, safety orchestration and automation, automatic reaction playbooks, enhanced visibility into person conduct, and seamless integration with the wider safety ecosystem. Those features reinforce organizations’ safety posture, letting them successfully stumble on, reply to, and mitigate a variety of safety threats.

Throughout the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Microsoft Sentinel integration, your safety operations middle (SOC) staff can achieve visibility into what’s taking place for your community, providing complete safety analytics and incident reaction features, in addition to equipping enterprises to successfully fight the subtle incursion tactics described within the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

The mixing begins through showcasing essential community data, reminiscent of crucial intrusion occasions and malicious actions. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN next-generation firewall (NGFW) intercepts and block those actions. It then forwards logs and safety occasions to Sentinel, supporting end-to-end visibility. Complete incident studies can then be generated when threats are detected through the embedded Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN safety stack. Your safety staff can then learn those incident studies and use the guidelines to give protection to your community.

“Our integration with Microsoft Sentinel empowers organizations to take proactive measures in securing their networks. By way of combining Cisco’s experience in networking and safety with Microsoft Sentinel’s enhanced menace searching, analytics, incident reaction, and automation features, we offer companies with the gear they want to keep one step forward of rising threats and make sure the integrity in their community infrastructure.”
–JP Shukla, Director, Product Control, Cisco

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is a member of the Microsoft Clever Safety Affiliation

The Microsoft Clever Safety Affiliation (MISA) is an ecosystem of impartial tool distributors and controlled safety carrier suppliers that experience built-in their safety answers with Microsoft Sentinel to raised shield towards an increasing number of subtle and fast-moving threats. Club is on an invitation-only foundation.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN is venerated to had been nominated for MISA club.

Strengthening safety for Azure and Microsoft 365 consumers

If what you are promoting depends upon Azure and/or Microsoft 365, glance to Microsoft Sentinel to assist discover subtle threats and reply decisively to cyberattacks.

If you want to attach campus places, knowledge facilities, branches, and different websites quicker and extra reliably and successfully and to empower community IT to regulate connectivity throughout WAN and cloud platforms—reminiscent of Azure—from a unmarried dashboard, glance to Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN.

And now you’ll be able to take pleasure in the Cisco and Microsoft collaboration to achieve even higher coverage towards cybercriminals, during the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN and Microsoft Sentinel integration.

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