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How Qdoba brought their networking and cybersecurity in-house

Qdoba’s Director of Infrastructure and Security shares how a secure access service edge (SASE) solution was the right approach to help connect and protect all 700+ restaurants in North America. By converging networking and security functionality and delivering it from the cloud, Qdoba was able to centralize and streamline their operations and enhance their security and visibility.

Find out more about how implementing a SASE solution with Cisco Secure helped solve Qdoba’s security and infrastructure challenges.

The Total Economic Impact™ of Cisco Umbrella

Forrester Consulting recently completed an independent cost-benefit analysis of Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) and Security Service Edge (SSE), so you can discover both the financial and operational benefits of this cloud-based security investment.  

In this study, you’ll learn:    

• Why Forrester estimates Umbrella users saw a 231% return on investment after only three years
• How Umbrella decreased the effort to deploy and enforce web and cloud security policies by 65
• That Umbrella can improve security efficacy by 30% and reduce data breaches by 21%
• How Umbrella increased security resilience

How Italy’s largest service provider, TIM, leverages security to drive digitization and raise revenues

“cisco umbrella enables tim safe web to keep more than half a million business customers safe, supplying to telecom italia both a competitive advantage and an incremental revenue opportunity in the process.”, salvatore nappi head it business marketing, tim.

Networking and security deployment time for Cosentino’s offices around the globe is also six times faster with Cisco. And despite such a profound transformation of its work environment and technology ecosystem, Cosentino has remained highly secure experiencing no significant security incidents since implementing Cisco Umbrella. Read Cosentino case study

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Marriott makes the internet safer with cisco.

In nearly 5000 properties in its portfolio throughout the U.S. and Canada, Marriott uses Cisco Umbrella in a first-of-its-kind initiative to block guest network access to online child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).

Blocking abuse materials requires innovative partnership

Cisco and Marriott have partnered with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a U.K.‒based nonprofit, to detect and block websites sharing CSAM from being accessed.

About Marriott International

Marriott International is the world's largest hospitality company. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, it has nearly 8800 properties across more than 30 leading brands in 139 countries and territories.

The privacy and anonymity of hotel rooms can inadvertently provide an environment for individuals to access CSAM. Amidst recent reports of CSAM proliferation, Marriott sought to ensure guests could not access these illegal materials on its hotel networks.

Marriott uses Cisco Umbrella to manage guest network access. Umbrella's cloud-delivered web filtering, integrated SafeSearch browsing, and DNS-layer security prevent access to CSAM content hosted by sites that appear on the IWF watchlist.

Solutions at Scale

The initiative was piloted at six properties and has since been deployed in nearly 5000 hotels in the U.S. and Canada, with a global rollout expected through 2024.

Protecting Children

Every successful block of CSAM represents one time a child survivor was protected from the revictimization that occurs each time their image is viewed.

Protecting human rights through security solutions with Cisco

Marriott's Abbe Horswill believes that stopping human trafficking is everyone's responsibility. Marriott relies on Cisco's security products to manage guest network access, blocking access to any CSAM.

Testimonials

Global partnerships fight to end child exploitation together.

"Marriott has long championed human rights and human trafficking awareness. Combating CSAM is an important extension of that work. The IWF provided the level of rigor we needed in a URL list, and Cisco's security technology provided the means to easily apply it."

Abbe Horswill, Director, Human Rights and Social Impact

Marriott International

A user-centered approach champions human rights

"Marriott is proud to be the first hospitality company to join the IWF and is utilizing Cisco's security technology to restrict access to exploitative materials through hotel networks. As a leader in the hospitality industry and a company that believes in putting people first, Marriott has committed to fighting human trafficking and other pressing human rights issues."

Anthony Capuano, President and Chief Executive Officer

Building a safer internet for all, together

"Every company that takes trust and safety seriously — and blocks and disrupts the sharing of child sexual abuse — helps us achieve our vision of an internet free from child sexual abuse."

Neil Prowse, Development Manager

Internet Watch Foundation

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