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Scan. Analyze. Improve! Reduce Risk and Improve Network Health with a Free Cloud-based Service

Efrat Noy, Manager Product Management @efratnoy

Michael Whitley, Manager Software Development @mtwhitley

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• Introduction

• Risk in your network

• Cisco Active Advisor

• Demos

• Q&A

• Next Steps

Agenda

Risk in your network

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Dimension Data Barometer Report 2015*

#1 Recommendation from the report:

Know your devices and their lifecycle stages

of all Network Devices are now Aging or Obsolete

53%

* http://www.dimensiondata.com/networkbarometer

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http://www.dimensiondata.com/networkbarometer


Global State of Information Security® Survey 2015*

What this means:

Secure your Network!

Make use of Cisco’s security capabilities

Security Incidents

42.8MLoss per Incident

$2.5M

* http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/cyber-security/information-security-survey.html

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http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/cyber-security/information-security-survey.html


Dimension Data Barometer Report 2015*

What this means:

Incidents are potentially avoidable!

Make a plan to apply Best Practices.

of all Incidents come from Human Error

30%

* http://www.dimensiondata.com/networkbarometer

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http://www.dimensiondata.com/networkbarometer


The Good, The Bad and the Ugly…

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Cisco Active Advisor


Cisco Active AdvisorAutomated and Personalized Advisories

• Personalized Info on:

• Security Advisories (PSIRTs and Field Notices)

• End-of-life & End-of-support dates

• Warranty & service contract status

• Best Practices Advisories

• Improves and secures the network

• Actionable recommendations

• Free, Cloud based service

• Agentless – nothing to download or install

• Accessible at: www.CiscoActiveAdvisor.com

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http://www.CiscoActiveAdvisor.com


3 Reasons for Cisco Active AdvisorCustomer Benefits

Improve and Secure

Personalized network health analysis

Compare to Cisco’s recommended best practices

Utilize built-in security capabilities

Reduce Risk

Automated discovery of:

Published security vulnerabilities (PSIRTs)

End-of-life products

Coverage Status

Free

Easily online access

Automatic Inventory collection

Covers 500+ part numbers

Configuration Conversion for Day0

Save Time & Money

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Before using Active Advisor:• CIO’s team spent 2 weeks to create and monitor

their Cisco inventory

• Required to perform this analysis every 6 months

• Faced inaccuracies in complied data

• Evaluated solutions costing >$4500

After Cisco Active Advisor:

• Inventory discovered and profiled in under 2 hours

• Information more accurate than other tools

• OpEx (time) reduced by 8% yearly

• OpEx budget reduced by $9000 yearly

Case Study – Winton-Ireland, Strom & Green

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Cisco Active AdvisorPartner Benefits

Eliminate Guesswork

Get visibility into a customer’s network

Know End of Life opportunities

Find uncovered devices

Visibility into non-compliant devices

Uncover new sales opportunities

Upsell new services for compliancy and best practices

Become a trusted advisor with best practices

Effective Pre-Sales

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Partner servicing a Petroleum company operating in the North Sea

Before using Active Advisor:• charter a boat once every 3 months to visit

each of the 14 oil derricks.

• Majority of the time was spent on planning the boat trips, traveling, inventorying, and optimizing the network.

After Cisco Active Advisor:

• Visit oil derricks every 6 months

• OpEx reduced by 50%

Key Use Cases – Advise in the North Sea

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Cisco Active Advisor and Smart Net Total CareCisco Active Advisor Smart Net Total Care Portal

End of Life/Sale

Security Advisories

Assessment ReportsBest Practices

based on CVDs

Readiness checks,

Threat Awareness

TAC Support, OS Upgrades,

H/W replacements

InstallationNone (web scanner) or

Simple Windows installRequired CSPC Collector

Network scanning Manual / On-demand Automated / Scheduled

Network Size Small to medium enterprises Medium to large enterprises

Supported ProductsAll Cisco Switches, Routers, ASAs,

Wireless APs and ControllersAll Cisco Products

Availability Free!Included with for-fee subscription support

service

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What you’ll see today

Scan your network devices

Analyze your network lifecycle

Improve your network health

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Scan your network devices


Network scans?

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How does scanning work?

Discovery is Local

Secure & Private

It’s Read-Only

SSH, Telnet, HTTP,

CDP, or SNMP

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Why scan your network?

AdvisoriesContract End of Life HealthRegistration

Scan

File Upload

Backup

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DEMO – Scan your network

Analyze your network lifecycle


Lifecycle analysis?

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How does lifecycle analysis work?

Contract Details

Matching Security Alerts

Hardware & Software

End of Life

Chassis & Modules

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DEMO – Analyze lifecycle

Improve your network health


“Take SCE to Aux”

John AaronElectrical & Environmental Flight Controller

November 14, 1969

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How do health assessments work?

Highly Contextual

Cisco Validated Designs

Fully Customizable

Interactive Results

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DEMO – Improve network health


What Customers are saying…

“I don’t remember life before Cisco Active Advisor”

“It takes us two days to generate a network inventory

and contract coverage report and we’re required to do

it every 6 weeks. It sounds like Active Advisor will be

able to do it in minutes!

“This is exactly what I need!”

“Where have you guys been last week? Because that’s what I spent all of last week doing…”

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What Partners are saying…

“I’m going to use this to find upsell

opportunity and new revenue

streams for my customers”

“No sh*t? This is badass!”

“This is awesome! Where have you guys

been?”“I’m Active Advisoring all my customers now!”

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How much time does Cisco Active Advisor save?

If everyone used Cisco Active Advisor to discover all the Switches, Routers and Wireless Access Points Cisco shipped in the last 5 years, you would save

13 million person-hours

What would you do with all that time?

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Next Steps


Next Steps – How You Can Use Cisco Active Advisor

Improve Create a plan to adopt Cisco’s Best Practices

Scan the network at CiscoActiveAdvisor.comScan

Review network’s inventory and healthAnalyze

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http://www.CiscoActiveAdvisor.Com


www.cisco.com/go/activeadvisor

How-Tos, Help articles, Usage, General help: help.ciscoactiveadvisor.com

Questions, Comments, Concerns, Feature requests? Use the Feedback button on Cisco Active Advisor

Send an email to [email protected]

Find out how much time Active Advisor can save here: http://www.cisco.com/web/global/assets/pdf/active-advisor.pdf and here: http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/cisco-active-

advisor-network-maintenance-and-improvement-made-easy

Blogs:

Scan. Analyze. Secure! http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/scan-analyze-secure

Scan. Analyze. Improve! http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/scan-analyze-improve-introducing-switching-and-wireless-best-

practices-on-cisco-active-advisor

Get the most from your networks http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/cisco-active-advisor-get-the-most-from-your-enterprise-

network

More Information

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http://www.cisco.com/go/activeadvisor

http://help.ciscoactiveadvisor.com/

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.cisco.com/web/global/assets/pdf/active-advisor.pdf

http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/cisco-active-advisor-network-maintenance-and-improvement-made-easy

http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/scan-analyze-secure

http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/scan-analyze-improve-introducing-switching-and-wireless-best-practices-on-cisco-active-advisor

http://blogs.cisco.com/enterprise/cisco-active-advisor-get-the-most-from-your-enterprise-network


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• Lunch & Learn

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References

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