Cisco Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Dominating the NAC Market With Its Flexible Platform

“Cisco NAC is an integrated and open solution providing visibility, technology integration, automation, and granular policy control from a user and their device to a resource or application. It is based on the Identity Services Engine (ISE) that comprises applications, services, and network controller features. Cisco has focused on growing its third-party ecosystem and partnerships to increase visibility and automate threat containment to embrace a platform approach,” said Tony Massimini, Cybersecurity Senior Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “It has also acknowledged the growing interest in the Zero Trust security model by integrating the technology with the acquisition of Duo Security. This acquisition not only provided a zero-trust security model, but also cloud-delivered technology, SaaS, and software-defined perimeter (SDP).”

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Cisco has a broad customer base in the NAC market covering almost every industry. With clear role-based segmentation, it has been consistently solving challenges for customers in the financial services industry. Its offerings are expanding into IoT use cases, especially in the OT industry. The company has also made inroads into the manufacturing and healthcare industries with its Cyber Vision and MedicalNAC offerings. It has made further investments in IoT, BYOD, and segmentation.

Cisco is adopting a holistic approach to developing its zero-trust security. It combines Cisco’s core foundational solutions including Duo for Workforce for an identity-based approach to application access control; Tetration for Workloads, a host-based segmentation combining visibility and enforcement; and SD-Access and ISE for Workplace, a fundamental component of NAC to start building a software-defined network (SDN) fabric. Cisco continues to develop threat-centric NAC enhancements with its growing intelligence ecosystem, Talos.

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“Cisco NAC benefits from Cisco’s leadership in networking equipment and services and being the largest enterprise and security vendor by revenue,” noted Massimini. “Cisco ISE integrates with 100+ ecosystem partners to provide a comprehensive, all-encompassing NAC solution. This wide partner and client network, as well as forward-looking product development strategies, are expected to keep it at the top of the leader board in the NAC market in the long term.”

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