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Cisco Meraki Security Solutions
One of the challenges of expanding your organization can be ensuring that your new locations are as secure as your first, and well managed. Cisco Meraki security appliances make this simple using their cloud networking architecture and remote access from a central point. Using IPsec over any wide area network, the Cisco Meraki MX connects your branches to one another just as if they were hard-wired together on one Ethernet system. The advantages to this are, of course, enormous, and Cisco Meraki's dashboard allows single-click configuration of the network, eliminating much tedious work.
The MX series of Cisco Meraki security solutions includes the MX60, 60x, 80, 100, 400 and 600, providing for a wide range of users, from about 25 to 10,000, depending on your organization's needs.
Automated Security Updates
Cisco Meraki's MX security appliances self-provision, which means they can automatically receive policies and configurations from the cloud, as well as apply seamless firmware and security signature updates. Managed entirely through the web-based dashboard, it is simpler than ever to expand your coverage to different branches of your organization, roll out new updates, and even perform diagnostics. Simplifying your IT department by enabling employees in one location to manage all of your organization's sites without having to make field visits or requiring you to have on-site IT for each branch can drastically cut your overheads and let you concentrate on your work, rather than worrying about how to manage your systems. With minimal set-up (simply enabling IPS and selecting a level of threat protection to enforce), Cisco Meraki's MX is ready to go in no time.
With the integrated, best-in-class Sourcefire Engine, every Cisco Meraki MX Security Appliance excels at threat prevention and intrusion detection. Defenses against the latest vulnerabilities (exploits, rootkits, viruses, etc) are pushed to MX devices via the cloud within the hour, automatically keeping your network up-to-date and protected without manual patching or staging.
Content Filtering Tools for Wireless Security
Content filtering is likewise simple, giving administrators the ability to block categories of websites, or to whitelist certain users. Through a series of pattern-matching steps, certain URLs on a website may be allowed, while others are excluded, and specific addresses can be added to a whitelist as needed. With these tools, filtering need no longer be the extensive, time-consuming process that it has been, and allows consistent filters to be applied across the board and tailored to specific groups.
Cisco Meraki's next generation firewall takes protection to the next level, granting administrators complete control over the content, applications and users on their network. By classifying and analyzing network traffic up to and including layer 7, this firewall can control applications which have been historically difficult to block, such as Skype, BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer or encrypted software.
For informed decision-making, Cisco Meraki provides real time IPS security reports on any internet-accessible device in the Meraki dashboard. Up to the minute data reports, as well as tools to easily sort and view historical trends, help administrators to identify trouble spots and create solutions, as well as providing security synopses to management.
Protection from ISP Connection Outages
Lastly, every Cisco Meraki MX Security appliance supports dual WAN uplinks with automatic (and seamless) failover to protect your network from ISP connection outages and ensure smooth network operation in the event of a failure. Administrators can easily set up priority flows so that functionality is maintained
In summary, Cisco Meraki's security solutions are simple, easy to deploy, maintain and diagnose, are automatically updated with the latest in threat-prevention, and give administrators more control over their networks. Contact Team One Solutions today to see how Cisco Meraki's security appliances can help protect your organization.
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