Point products have created a feeling of “tool fatigue” for many enterprises today, especially when it comes to security.

Cybersecurity infrastructure has grown significantly for many organizations, and Cisco Systems Inc. has responded to this concern around too many tools with a simplified platform containing zero trust, cloud endpoint, and breach defense capabilities. This should be welcome news for many enterprise security teams.

“The business is growing faster than they can protect it,” said Ken O’Reilly (pictured, left), director of customer experience at Cisco. “You’ve got a very stressed team with a lot of turnover. We’re taking the products that we have, and we’re integrating them under one platform so that it isn’t a bunch of point products.”

O’Reilly spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Cisco Live event in Barcelona. He was joined by Kyle Michael Winters (pictured, right), technical marketing engineer of CXTechnology & Transformation Group at Cisco, and they discussed a central product tailored to provide customers with greater network visibility and Cisco’s continued work to combine and integrate security solutions. (* Disclosure below.)

Insight through network analytics

A key element of Cisco’s overall platform strategy is Stealthwatch, the company’s visibility and network security analytics solution. One large financial customer discovered rogue DNS servers, unsecured telnet, and SQL injections on its network within 30 minutes after Stealthwatch went live, according to Winters.

“A lot of times customers don’t even understand what’s going on in their networks,” Winters explained. “They’re seeing things they’ve never seen before when Stealthwatch turns on. It’s all about bridging the gap between Stealthwatch and the rest of not only Cisco’s portfolio, but the entirety of our customer’s security portfolio.”

Earlier this week, Cisco introduced an “internet of things” security architecture designed to provide visibility across information and operational technology platforms.

“With the complexity of technology and how fast technology is moving, accelerating value realization for customers has never been bigger, especially with security,” O’Reilly said. “You don’t want shelfware. You don’t want products and technology sitting there waiting to be implemented.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Cisco Live event. (* Disclosure: Cisco Systems Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Cisco nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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