The Role of Identity in Network Security

Cisco's Tom Gillis on the Latest Security Trends and Challenges Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 8, 2024

It’s a familiar pattern: A new threat appears on the horizon, organizations get hacked and teams of security vendors offer new security tools to defend the enterprise. Over time, many security organizations have acquired hundreds of tools, and instead of being more secure, detection and analysis across a broad spectrum of solutions is even harder.

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Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of the Security Business Group at Cisco, said security teams are pushing back on the point solutions in favor of an integrated platform with comprehensive identity controls - from the user to the device and down to the software process level.

These days, customers want "integrated solutions from a single vendor that looks across multiple domains, and this is where we think ...