Cisco ISE is the NAC market leader with more deployments than
any other vendor and delivers, supports, and continuously improves
its solution to meet current and future requirements
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
July 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on
its recent analysis of the global network access control (NAC)
market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Cisco Systems,
Inc. with the 2020 Global Market Leadership Award for
continuing to lead the market with a 33.4 percent market share in
2019. Its NAC revenue growth outpaced the overall market and earned
it 0.85 basis points of market share, the most by any vendor. Cisco
addresses the specific needs of its customers in all vertical
markets with an open and flexible NAC architecture. In addition to
its internal technology development, it makes strategic
acquisitions for technologies that will enhance all of its security
products.
"Cisco NAC is an integrated and open solution providing
visibility, technology integration, automation, and granular policy
control from a user and their device to a resource or application.
It is based on the Identity Services Engine (ISE) that comprises
applications, services, and network controller features. Cisco has
focused on growing its third-party ecosystem and partnerships to
increase visibility and automate threat containment to embrace a
platform approach," said Tony Massimini, Cybersecurity Senior
Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. "It has also acknowledged
the growing interest in the Zero Trust security model by
integrating the technology with the acquisition of Duo Security.
This acquisition not only provided a zero-trust security model, but
also cloud-delivered technology, SaaS, and software-defined
perimeter (SDP)."
Cisco has a broad customer base in the NAC market covering
almost every industry. With clear role-based segmentation, it has
been consistently solving challenges for customers in the financial
services industry. Its offerings are expanding into IoT use cases,
especially in the OT industry. The company has also made inroads
into the manufacturing and healthcare industries with its Cyber
Vision and MedicalNAC offerings. It has made further investments in
IoT, BYOD, and segmentation.
Cisco is adopting a holistic approach to developing its
zero-trust security. It combines Cisco's core foundational
solutions including Duo for Workforce for an identity-based
approach to application access control; Tetration for Workloads, a
host-based segmentation combining visibility and enforcement; and
SD-Access and ISE for Workplace, a fundamental component of NAC to
start building a software-defined network (SDN) fabric. Cisco
continues to develop threat-centric NAC enhancements with its
growing intelligence ecosystem, Talos.
"Cisco NAC benefits from Cisco's leadership in networking
equipment and services and being the largest enterprise and
security vendor by revenue," noted Massimini. "Cisco ISE
integrates with 100+ ecosystem partners to provide a comprehensive,
all-encompassing NAC solution. This wide partner and client
network, as well as forward-looking product development strategies,
are expected to keep it at the top of the leader board in the NAC
market in the long term."
Each year, Frost & Sullivan bestows this award upon the
company that demonstrates excellence in growth and customer value.
Attaining loyal customers who became brand advocates allows the
company to grow and achieve a market leadership position. By
committing to the customer at each stage of the buying cycle and
continuing to nurture the relationship, this Award recognizes a
company's increased market share over time.
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leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and
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analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best
practices in the industry.
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