Cisco Collaborates with Rackspace to Help Deliver Advanced Security for Multicloud Environments
February 23 2018 - 7:00AM
For more than 20 years, Rackspace, a leading provider of IT managed
services, has collaborated with Cisco to provide the highest levels
of security for its company and its customers’ networks. Today,
Cisco and Rackspace continue their long-standing collaboration by
delivering Rackspace customers advanced protection against evolving
sophisticated threats in their multicloud journey.
Organizations are increasingly leveraging the benefits of the
multicloud world to drive operational efficiencies, flexibility,
scalability and growth expansion. More than 50 percent of security
professionals said they host networks in the cloud because of
better data security; 48 percent, because of scalability; and 46
percent, because of ease of use1. As adversaries increasingly
weaponize cloud services, dynamic workloads moving to the cloud are
at risk of creating new threat vectors. These vectors can come from
the companies’ premises, to the cloud, and to threats coming
directly from the internet.
“The cloud is the future of IT for all businesses, but for many
companies, the journey to the cloud can be a challenge,” said
Brian Kelly, Chief Security Officer, Rackspace.
“One of the biggest hurdles and concerns for these companies is
security – customers want to know that their data is protected with
the most up-to-date and innovative technologies, even as their
cloud needs evolve. Through our close collaboration with Cisco in
threat protection, we are committed to helping secure our clients’
evolving and expanding journey to the cloud.”
To help protect its customers’ hosted environments, Rackspace
continues to pilot Cisco’s advanced security solutions. Recognized
as one of Cisco’s largest firewall customers, Rackspace has
deployed and served as a testing partner for Cisco’s stateful
firewall, the ASA series, to the ASA 5500-X Series, to now the
Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall for advanced threat
protection. Rackspace is deploying high volumes of Cisco’s
Next-Generation Firewalls and integrating them directly into its
services, helping enable its customers to manage their hosted
environments more efficiently and securely.
“As a company that is committed to enabling its customers on
their digital transformation journeys, Rackspace is constantly
evolving to solve customers’ IT challenges,” said David
Neuman, Chief Information Security Officer, Rackspace.
“The value of a partner that understands what a global market is
looking for in different customer verticals is extremely important
to us. We depend on partners like Cisco to help us understand not
only what we’re doing today, but what’s on the horizon and we can
collaborate to deliver next-generation capabilities.”
Rackspace benefits from the industry’s first fully integrated,
threat-focused next-generation firewall, Cisco Firepower,
which:
- Stops more threats – both known and unknown –
with the industry’s most effective threat protection.
- Provides more insight into and control over
the users, applications, devices, threats, and vulnerabilities in
the network.
- Detects earlier and acts faster by shrinking
malware time to detection from months down to hours and enables
quicker remediation
- Reduces complexity and simplifies operations
by consolidating all security functions into a single management
interface
“Today’s attacks are multivector. Customers need to have
multiple layers of defense to combat sophisticated attacks, and
Cisco brings an integrated architectural advantage to the market,”
said David Ulevitch, Senior Vice President and General
Manager of Cisco’s Security Business Group. “Cisco is
committed to helping protect and secure our longtime partner
Rackspace and its customers’ cloud environments.”
Hear more from Rackspace and Cisco executives on their
close collaboration in this video
here.
Supporting Resources
- Blog: Cisco and Rackspace Deliver Advanced Security for the
Multicloud
- Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report
- Follow Cisco on Twitter @CiscoSecurity
- Like Cisco Security on Facebook
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1 2018 Cisco Annual Cybersecurity Report
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