Cisco IOS Security Reviews & Insights

Cisco IOS Security is theain IOS we use to manage our entire enterpraise network. The features and tools prpvided in the Cisco IOS Security makes managing and securing the network easily and smooth. Starting from creating access list and limiting access to certian users to hardening the switches and routers from unwanted attackers.

We used to access list remote login to the switches for only network admin from specific vlan. And allow some vendor server to connect for snmp messages.
This has allowed us to monitor with external vendor while keeping security tight and audit for users. In other hand we had to use external solution for NAC.

There are a few IOS Security features that our organization uses. We use port security with limiting MAC addresses as well as keeping them sticky. We also use IOS security for AAA via 802.1X as well as RADIUS device management authentication, authorization, and accounting. We also have hardening features to secure our platform.

When it comes to security on the edge of your network (downstream) Cisco's IOS security features provide pretty much everything you need when it comes to securing your network, network devices, and access. I would absolutely recommend Cisco switches due to many reasons, but a big reason is security.

Using Cisco IOS Security is used in our organization in securing the network from multiple areas, starting with implementing authentication to access the network and port security to block unauthorized users to the access list to block specific traffic depending on source IP, destination IP, Used Protocols and many more factors. Cisco IOS security is used by the Network team on the organization network to support the whole organization users. to secure the organization assets ( devices, data, user identity, ...etc).

Cisco IOS Security is great when there isn't enough budget to acquire advanced security solutions like ISE. We can use the Cisco IOS security features to secure our network as much as we can, we can do authentication using Radius, Port Security, and access lists to secure our traffic while eliminating the attacker from accessing our network.

We use Cisco routers with iOS security in our remote offices around the world. This solves the major problem of having remote sites connected to the Internet: you can protect them from attacks with a simple and easy to deploy a solution like iOS security.

If your business has branch offices or stores with all the same standards, Cisco iOS security is a good solution to standardize the deployment of those remote sites but if you need a more robust or specialized or customized solution for each branch, remote office or store maybe Cisco iOS security is not for you and you should search for another kind of product.

We utilize Cisco IOS in all aspects of our environment. From our local onsite network, to our remote datacenter and cloud deployments, to our customer networks we provide consulting services for. Cisco IOS provides an established solid foundation for the network and allows us to implement new technologies without a fear that the network will be able to support it. We know that with a Cisco network, it can handle anything we can throw at it.

If I have my choice, I will always use a Cisco device. It is appropriate and excellent for all networks. However it might not be appropriate for all budgets. They do have a SMB series that is appropriately priced and compared to other SMB products, it is a fairly decent product.