Securing Meraki Networks with Cisco XDR

Most organizations acknowledge the advantages accrued by connecting their digital expertise stacks for addressing gaps of their cyber-defenses. Nevertheless, one hole that continues to problem organizations of all sizes exists between the community and safety operations, making breaches a major root trigger for community outages. Breach associated disruptions can final for months earlier than regular operations are restored. Giving Community Directors advance warning into safety threats rising of their surroundings stays aspirational for a lot of.

At Cisco, we’ve at all times strived to construct safety into the community, moderately than bolting it onto the community as an afterthought. In the direction of this finish, we’re happy to announce the mixing of Cisco XDR, our progressive prolonged detection and response answer, with the much-adored Cisco Meraki portfolio.

Meraki Networks will get a Safety shot within the arm

As we speak, we’re arming Meraki community and safety directors with the power to proactively monitor rising threats as they develop of their surroundings. Relatively than await ‘Breaking Information’ from their safety counterparts, community directors can catch the warning indicators early and assign suspicious incidents to safety analysts for additional investigation. On this means, they’ll keep forward of the curve and forestall occasions from mushrooming into full-blown incidents.

This yr at Cisco Dwell 2024, clients can expertise the place safety meets the community with new capabilities integrating Cisco XDR with the Meraki MX Safety and SD-WAN portfolio in furtherance of Cisco’s built-in safety technique. 

Advantages circulation in each instructions

The advantages accrued from integrating Cisco XDR with the Meraki Community are a two-way avenue. Whereas the Networking groups undoubtedly profit from superior warning of rising threats, the Safety operations groups acquire invaluable community insights from the Meraki portfolio.

Prolonged Detection and Response (XDR) is a instrument for correlating and making use of analytics on discrete safety alerts from varied management factors in a corporation’s safety stack. Whereas XDR traces its origins as an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) extension, it has advanced to incorporate integrations with Electronic mail protection, Firewall visitors, Cloud safety, and Id-based intelligence.

Nevertheless, many organizations miss the connective tissue linking these disparate safety control-points: The Community. Monitoring community connections natively as a part of XDR’s correlation course of permits organizations to “join the dots”, one thing that many safety groups battle to do. By partnering with Meraki gadgets, Cisco XDR can leverage information about community connections to fill-in-the-blanks between safety occasions, thus offering visibility into lateral motion and assist monitor the development of an assault. Add to this information from present Cisco XDR and Third-Celebration integrations as properly the Cisco XDR Community Visibility Module, and a blurry image comes into sharp focus.

Whereas the Meraki MX portfolio is the inaugural Meraki household of merchandise enabled by way of this integration, future growth will embody Meraki Switching (MS) and Meraki Wi-fi (MR) household of merchandise. This identical carefully built-in however loosely coupled mannequin may also be prolonged to Catalyst networking portfolio, making safety constructed into Cisco networks a actuality.

What capabilities are being delivered immediately?

Since most of our readers have busy eyes, here’s a bulleted record of capabilities which can be being delivered as part of this integration:

• Connection between a Meraki Group (inclusive of kid Meraki Networks) to a Cisco XDR tenant, utilizing an ‘simple button’ course of
• Agentless streaming of Meraki MX community telemetry information (NetFlow) to XDR cloud in real-time
• Cisco XDR detections primarily based on Meraki MX logs, and correlation of these with findings from different information sources out there to Cisco XDR
• Offering Meraki directors, the power to assessment, assign, and modify the standing of an XDR Incident kind throughout the Meraki dashboard. Incident investigation is enabled by way of a cross-launch into Cisco XDR
• Actual-time Menace Searching and Investigation of Meraki MX safety occasions Cisco XDR, and enhancement of XDR Asset Insights context primarily based on Meraki Techniques Supervisor offered machine attributes

The place can I study extra?

Go to the Cisco XDR and Meraki areas at Cisco Dwell 2024 Las Vegas from June 3 to June 6 to study extra and think about a stay demo of this functionality. Please contact your Cisco safety or Meraki gross sales representatives or companions for enrolling within the personal preview of this functionality beginning in July 2024.

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