Cisco Secure Connect How to fit It
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are a system integrator and we propose Cisco Secure Connect to our customers, not all the customers fit this solution, the best cases are for those company which has several sites around the world and require a central control of security policies for the traffic between a private dc and the branches or to manage the security policies for those mobile users or hybrid users that a day are in the office and another are working from home. This solution provides a central management of user Web filtering in context like home or office, remote access, SD-WAN control of the sites and resilience in the cloud, optimize the traffic by enabling the remote access from the Cisco Secure Connect pops around the world hence users can get access to the applications from the closer available point of access
Pros
- Central management and visibility
- Remote Access for users around the world
- Optimized access from the branches around the world with a step up from the sd-wan technologu
- Security upgrade
Cons
- Integration with ISE
- Increase the presence of the Cisco Secure Connect PoPs
- increase the available bandwidth per tunnel
- Presence or Deal with ISP Partners in China
Likelihood to Recommend
Enterprise with Hybrid Workers or remote workers where most of the resources are in cloud. Branches spread around the worlds with private DCs. Enterprise with mpls or sd-wan connection, the Cisco Secure Connect technology is a further technology upgrade from SD-WAN. Central management of l3/l4 policies, DNS filtering and Web Filtering based on the identity.
