Cisco Duo Security
The landscape of authentication is clearly changing. Just a few years ago, security experts started preaching a risk-based access model—evaluating users, their devices, and the applications they access to determine a login’s legitimacy. The corporate network wasn’t the ultimate source of security anymore. Instead, risk could be managed using stronger security controls such as like multifactor authentication (MFA).
Now, with the concept of de-perimeterization firmly established, access security is building on the foundation of MFA. IT professionals are realizing that security adoption is as important as the technology itself—and that forgoing passwords is a major usability improvement. It is also clear that remote work is here to stay, and access security must respond to new and evolving use cases. In the face of so much change, it’s more important than ever that organizations have a streamlined, effective security stack that runs like clockwork.
In this section, we’ll examine these industry shifts and look at how accessing security for everyone, from any device, anywhere is possible with Duo.
Since its founding in 2010, Duo has stood out in the cybersecurity industry by offering users people-focused endpoint verification solutions that make effective security easy. With user-friendly tools for authentication (including MFA and passwordless single sign-on), device trust, and adaptive context-based access, Duo quickly became a sought-after security software provider—and an obvious choice for joining Cisco Secure’s powerful digital security portfolio. Duo Security has been a part of Cisco Secure since 2018, and its secure access product portfolio has continued to expand both in breadth and in its ability to solve emerging security challenges, like those faced in remote and hybrid workplace migrations.
Today, Duo provides Cisco Secure with streamlined endpoint verification tools, secure remote access platforms, cutting-edge visibility tools for administrators, and much more. Duo’s dynamic and effective zero-trust solutions offer users security resilience by providing both product reliability and flexibility. Because of Duo’s ability to integrate with any device, identity provider, application, or infrastructure, Cisco Secure clients can confidently deploy these sophisticated products to add zero-trust security into any setting. Figure 8-41 illustrates the capabilities of Duo Security.
Figure 8-41 Capabilities of Duo Security
Zero-trust takes security beyond the corporate network perimeter, protecting your data at every access attempt, from any device, anywhere. It’s the future of information security, and Duo is your rock-solid foundation.