Apple's Cook promises security insurance discount at Cisco event
Apple CEO Tim Cook made a surprise appearance at a Cisco event in Las Vegas on Monday, revealing plans to help businesses with discounts on cyber-security insurance if they use products from both companies. Following the event, Cisco announced another outcome of its Apple partnership, the Cisco Security Connector app for iPhone and iPad.
"The thinking we share here is that if your enterprise or company is using Cisco and Apple, that the combination of these should make that insurance cost significantly less," Cook said according to Reuters. "This is something we're going to spend some energy on. You should reap that benefit."
The Security Connector app will launch this fall, and offer "security functionality from Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Clarity in a single app," Cisco said. Specifically the app will aid in the investigation of security incidents, block people from connecting to malicious websites, and encrypt DNS requests.
Organizations will have to deploy the app via a mobile device management platform -- most likely Cisco's Meraki Systems Manager. Prior to the fall, organizations will be able to test Security Connector by way of a beta program.
Apple and Cisco first announced their collaboration in Aug. 2015, intended to ensure iPhones and iPads were optimized for Cisco networks, and vice versa.
Many other Apple enterprise partnerships have been forged in recent years, including ones with IBM, SAP, and Deloitte.
"The thinking we share here is that if your enterprise or company is using Cisco and Apple, that the combination of these should make that insurance cost significantly less," Cook said according to Reuters. "This is something we're going to spend some energy on. You should reap that benefit."
The Security Connector app will launch this fall, and offer "security functionality from Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Clarity in a single app," Cisco said. Specifically the app will aid in the investigation of security incidents, block people from connecting to malicious websites, and encrypt DNS requests.
Organizations will have to deploy the app via a mobile device management platform -- most likely Cisco's Meraki Systems Manager. Prior to the fall, organizations will be able to test Security Connector by way of a beta program.
Apple and Cisco first announced their collaboration in Aug. 2015, intended to ensure iPhones and iPads were optimized for Cisco networks, and vice versa.
Many other Apple enterprise partnerships have been forged in recent years, including ones with IBM, SAP, and Deloitte.
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With the Cisco Security Connector, organizations gain the following:
If you would ever have needed insurance, your compliance risks or liability is probably quite high. You should probably still get insurance with those products, but it should be quite a bit cheaper.
Is Apple abandoning WiFi due to security concerns that they don't feel up to meeting?
The truth is: There are a number of doors into your private data. Two of the biggest, widest doors are your device and your router. Apple has the device pretty well tied down and locked up tight (at least as well or better than anybody). But we are learning that the router is a door that is not only not locked but wide open for most.
I think there is a lot more behind this story...
... Especially as cloud/internet computing proliferates to home devices and to automobiles. It could involve a lot more than 'just' private information. It could increasingly involve your physical safety.
And may be it is part of the deal between Apple and Cisco, both dont step into each other's category? ( Hence no more Airport ) I think they learn that from working with Google.