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Why You Need Cisco Duo Security

What Does Cisco Duo Security do?

The Cisco Duo Security solution allows for customers to deploy zero-trust security measures both inside and outside the corporate network in a time effective manner. For organisations of all sizes they need to provide scalable security for personal data, Duo’s trusted access solution is a user-centric zero-trust security platform for all users, all devices and all applications. Cisco Duo Security reduces the risk of data breaches across your network and ensures trusted access to sensitive data.

Cisco Duo Security, Two Factor authentication, Security Integration

Duo Security Integrations

Securing your Remote Access

Securing your remote access Duo integrates with mostly VPN provider making a strong user authentication as well as device health checks. This integrated solution provides security admins with the ability to enforce consistent user and device based access policy for VPN access, therefore reducing the risk of breaches.

Securing your DNS

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides security at the DNS level of a network. Umbrella identifies malicious domains, IPs, as well as anomalies and predicts emerging threats. Umbrella provides first line of defence against threats whilst protecting logins into Umbrella which is critical to maintain the integrity of security infrastructure. Duo is integrated with Umbrella to provide strong user authentication and device security hygiene checks ensuring access to Umbrella is not compromised.

Securing your Cloud Apps

Duo’s integration with Cisco WebEx offers a number of ways to add two-factor authentication and flexible security policies to WebEx SSO logins. Duo Security layers strong authentication and a flexible policy engine on top of WebEx logins using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 authentication standard. Duo is able to authenticate your users using existing on-premises or cloud-based directory credentials and requires two-factor authentication before permitting access to WebEx.

 

Proactively reduce the risk of a data breach with Duo. Verify users’ identities, gain visibility into every device, and enforce adaptive policies to secure access to every application.

What is Two Factor Authentication?

Two factor authentication or MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) allows you to proactively reduce the risk of a data breaches. By verifying users’ identities you can gain visibility into every device, and enforce adaptive policies to secure access to every application within your network. Clientless remote access for multicloud environments and remote workers is achievable with MFA and it is all managed through one single dashboard.

Based on individual users, you can individually configure each security policy and network access restrictions or freedoms to every one of your employees. Make informed decisions on restrictions by surveying client and customer activity on your network negating potential risks as soon as possible. For organisations of all sizes, Duo’s trusted access solution creates trust in users, devices and the applications they access.

The concern in not having Cisco Duo deployed is that your whole network becomes twice as vulnerable, malicious hackers have to break past two security barriers whilst in the meanwhile your Cisco platforms and IT manager can identify these threats and terminate them before they gain any access to your network.

 

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Use Cases

 

Duo’s trusted access solution secures a wide range of industries, including technology, education, federal, healthcare and more.

We’ve had nothing but good experiences with Duo. It’s one of those rare security companies that actually has great UX and it’s fair to say that our userbase finds it extremely easy and that makes my life easier. If people find it easy to use then they’ll actually use it and that means that I sleep a little bit better at night.

                                                                                        – Rich Smith Director of Security, Etsy
Like all great security products – they should silently fall away into the background. You shouldn’t ever see a good security product, and that’s what we see with Duo.
                                                                          – Paul Pieralde Principal Product Security Engineer, Eventbrite
Facebook is a very fast-paced environment and we needed technologies that would allow us to maintain that pace. Because of the ease of use of Duo Security and Yubico authentication technologies, we have seen minimal support and overhead costs. Other technologies didn’t fully support our need to allow multiple and rapid logins to SSH sessions.
                                                                           – John “Four” Flynn Information Security Manager, Facebook
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