Cisco Meraki ups security with new switch, software

Cisco Meraki has introduced new hardware and software the company says will help customers more effectively support and secure a wide variety of distributed network resources.

The new products, which include a raft of new security features as well a new class of switches and a cellular gateway will help Meraki address customers who perhaps don’t have the IT expertise nor staffing to support the increasing number of devices that need to be managed, said Lawrence Huang, vice president of product management at Cisco Meraki.

With that idea as a backdrop, Meraki is rolling out a software feature called Adaptive Policy that lets businesses group users, applications and devices that they can then apply security policies based on client, intent, and identity.  Huang said that Adaptive Policy is an extension of Cisco’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Access software that customers can use to group users and devices within networked segments according to their access privileges.