Meraki from a vendors perspective

Meraki MR is a product that eases the administration for the customer and provides a short route in implementation for the consultant. A nice visual dashboard gives the customer an excellent view throughout the network. Most beneficial when dealing with many branches in several different places, it the branches furthest away that need most attention, with Meraki Dashboard all branches are as close as the HQ.

Visual management makes it easier to get a quick glance and an easier way of finding out what is wrong. Can be handed over to first line support to avoid involving networking technician straight away. Enables to get control of remote offices that actually are more crucial to have fully functional operations than head quarters since they are "left alone"

When at the office you are always protected by company security policies. Working from home is a different ball game. Here you need to sort out three different types of communication, your business communication through VPN, your business internet usage and then also your families use of Internet. These thre ways needs different approaches, you do not want malicious code to come into your network through the familys actions to affect your work device at home. Therefor you have to take an approach to secure your own end point as it is the first perimiter far away from the company protected environment behind a firewall.

You need to secure the end point. That endpoint must also be able to function as well from home as from the office. When the end point isn't secured at your home office, it might, when your in the office, connect to the office network and spread malicious code from within.

A simple VPN connection will not guard you enough, it will keep you safe when connected but what will happen when youre not connected? Ciscos can offer solutions for each step to secure your end point, from Cisco Umbrella to Cisco Secure End point keeping you and your company safe all the way.

Working from home keeps you more focused while not so frequent visits to the office space will create a need to be more social once you are there, making you less productive. Do make sure you use Webex or Teams to connect to collegues and be social with them. See, there is a Cisco solution for that as well.

Cisco products will be the same for protecting both the end point and to protect the companys network, threat intelligence will all come from Cisco Thalos.

It is important to understand your network and your challenges coming up ahead. Do I need a solution that can be ready and reliable straight away or do I want to evolve with the network over time. How do I implement security features along side and within the network.

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