Security for SMBs in the Post-Covid Hybrid Work Landscape

In our ever-evolving, post-Covid, increasingly hybrid work landscape, security is more important than ever. With businesses running and relying upon employees and infrastructure that may not all be physically housed in a single secure location, creative solutions are needed to ensure the security of customers, employees, and the businesses themselves.

Enter Cisco’s creative suite of security solutions, specifically designed with the small to medium businesses in mind.? All too often, businesses that are small to medium erroneously assume that they will not be targeted by hackers or other nefarious entities. That way of thinking could not be further from the truth, and indeed every business of every size must consider the potential ramifications and damages that could occur with just one attack against a single customer or transaction, not to mention employee, who too is at risk.

To appropriately ensure the sound security of a business, the right cyber, physical, and environmental security solutions are needed. Cisco Secure provides everything from impenetrable firewalls, endpoints and VPNs, to secured access. With an eye on the progressive IT climate, it takes a multi-level approach and protects assets by combining both monitoring and analytics with cybersecurity and smart devices.

Cisco’s security solutions are flexible, so that whether a business needs to focus their attention on apps or devices, cloud-based smart sensors, video surveillance, or other applications, they will find an appropriate toolset within its catalogue.

In an environment that can oftentimes seem rigid and inaccessible, especially for SMBs, Cisco Secure is nimble, and will scale with a business, adapting to its evolving needs as they arise. As far as adaptability, one key characteristic of Cisco’s security solutions is that they are highly responsive, and quick to keep pace with the inevitable speed with which developments often occur.

And SMBs needn’t feel intimidated by what many consider to be the exclusive security playground of larger, more established, or renowned companies. Cisco provides a plethora of informative and supportive resources such as the Product Selector Tool to guide newcomers into the world of security, and will help businesses define the distinct protections they require.

Keeping a secure handle on all operations is more important than ever, not only for activities occurring on-prem, which can more easily be locked down, but also and especially throughout the cyber-world, as employees interact with company data and conduct business remotely in the increasingly common hybrid work model. A robust, multi-tiered, and creative set of solutions is the only way to go, even for SMBs.

For a peek at some of the solutions currently available by Cisco, visit Cisco SMB.