Cisco has launched an initiative focused on how the technology sector should approach network security. Resilient Infrastructure, the name the company has given to the initiative, represents another step in Cisco’s security evolution.
The objectives of Resilient Infrastructure are to reduce the attack surface, increase the protection of sensitive data and provide those in charge of defense with stronger capabilities for detecting and monitoring threats in network infrastructure.
Cisco Resilient Infrastructure is built on three fundamental pillars: simplification through solutions with secure configurations, protocols, and features by default; proactive alerts to network administrators when unsafe decisions are being made; and phasing out legacy features through increased security warnings and features disabled by default.
In this sense, instead of waiting for a patch to be released, or scheduling emergency updates, Cisco will design functions for the implementation of specific protections in real time. In this way, it is possible to have barriers against specific vulnerabilities soon after they are identified.
It is, therefore, a method that contemplates cybersecurity by default, and that allows security and IT teams to mitigate potential risks immediately, without the need to interrupt operations, or carry out unplanned maintenance, in a framework in which AI is accelerating online threats, and in which 48% of network assets around the world are obsolete or aging, which exposes critical sectors, such as water, health and energy; to significant security risks.
Anthony Grieco, Vicepresidente senior y Chief Security & Trust Officer en Ciscohas commented that «las Networks have been exposed to relentless attacks for years, with considerable increases in sophistication, scale and speed. “We rely on the network to protect our most sensitive data, but quantum computing is about to revolutionize current encryption algorithms, so the network must evolve to support post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and be secure by default.”
