Cisco Business Support During COVID -19

March 17, 2020

Cisco is currently offering the free Cisco WebEx to ensure your remote work safe, and help organize important meetings and useful trainings. Cisco is broadening this offer to include security for remote employees by providing extended free licenses and expanded usage counts at no extra charge for three key security technologies.

Given the global situation and the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus, most companies are struggling to keep their business and protect their employees and customers, therefore increasing the demand for remote work. This pressures both - IT and security teams, who are being tasked with providing support for an unprecedented number of offsite workers and their devices. Cisco continues to closely monitor and respond to the global epidemic, as their top priorities include health, well-being, satisfaction and support for their customers and partners. Cisco is mobilizing their own resources and technology to help the people affected by this difficult situation.

With this in mind, Cisco is offering the free Cisco WebEx to ensure your remote work safe, and help organize important meetings and useful trainings. Working remotely is now in a tremendous growth and increases companies networks and data access, application usage, confidential information exchange, on line presentations and meetings. The Cisco WebEx platform provides all your team collaboration needs. For detailed instructions on using Cisco Webex please visit here.

Cisco Security Solutions

In response to customers asking for guidance, today, Cisco is broadening this offer to include security for remote employees by providing extended free licenses and expanded usage counts at no extra charge for three key security technologies. These technologies are designed to protect remote workers anywhere, anytime and on any device.

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client empowers employees to work from anywhere on company laptops or personal mobile devices. It also provides the visibility and control security teams need to identify who and which devices are accessing their infrastructure.
Cisco Umbrella protects users from malicious Internet destinations whether they are on or off the network. Since it is delivered from the cloud, Umbrella makes it easy to protect users everywhere. With this offer, existing customers can exceed their user limit to support an increase in remote workers, and new customers can access a free license.
Duo Security enables organizations to verify users’ identities and establish device trust before granting access to applications. By employing a zero-trust model, it decreases the attack surface and reduces risk. With this offer, existing customers can exceed their user limit to support an increase in remote workers, and new customers can access a free license.