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Achieving deeper levels of context awareness for network and endpoint devices enables IT to offer a comprehensive secure access and a productive mobile user experience.

More advanced intelligence and meaningful analysis across the network and its endpoints helps IT professionals deliver a high degree of simple and customized secure access to ensure the optimal user experience. Cisco Unified Access™ provides central policy across the entire network (wired, wireless, and VPN) with system-wide visibility into and control over who is on the network. This intelligent network platform enables highly secure, connected experiences.

Given Cisco’s networking DNA, security leadership, and customer-centric approach, our network architecture helps our customers address IT transformations like BYOD and cloud computing with stronger control while improving operational efficiencies.

At Cisco, for example, our employees have the flexibility to choose their devices with the added confidence of securely connecting to voice, video, and data services from anywhere under our Any Device policy. Cisco IT manages more than 64,000 mobile devices worldwide. Through our ability to support our BYOD policy with Cisco Unified Access™, we’ve made it simple to securely add mobile devices to our network. In just two years, we’ve

• decreased our cost per user by 33%
• decreased our support cases by 53%
• increased user satisfaction by 28%

The policy cornerstone to the Cisco Unified Access solution is the industry-recognized Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). Based on additional context garnered from networks and endpoints, ISE applies this intelligence to provide well-defined policy-driven differentiated network access to global sites for more than 80,000 Cisco employees and up to 1 million registered devices across Cisco’s wired, wireless, and virtual private networks.

With Cisco ISE, we provide our IT administrators with a simple way to provide the right users with the right access to their key resources using any device. This solution lowers IT support costs, provides better resource availability, and improves overall user experience.

We hope this publication featuring Gartner’s research will provide you with information that you can use to advance your own secure BYOD or mobile device strategy and transform your organization. Visit Cisco’s Secure Access solution to learn more.

Sincerely,

Dave Frampton, Vice President, Cisco Secure Access & Mobility