In collaboration with Bethany Duffrin
Saving 30 seconds doesn’t sound like quite a bit till you think about a number of 30-second financial savings per day, multiplied by weeks, months, and years. Throughout an enterprise, saving seconds may even quantity to a whole lot of 1000’s of hours saved per yr. We all know it’s true as a result of we’re a type of enterprises.
Greater than 80,000 Cisco staff and half as many contractors authenticate for VPN entry every day. With a mean connection time of 30 seconds, the potential time financial savings are dramatic. This interprets to shut to a half-million hours saved per yr — just by eliminating the time required to authenticate customers for digital personal community (VPN) entry.
Our Cisco IT Buyer Zero workforce is at all times testing and bettering the Cisco merchandise that our staff are utilizing, to each preserve our firm protected and safe in addition to preserve a easy, seamless person expertise. So, once we acquired suggestions from colleagues concerning the time it takes to connect with our VPN attributable to authentication verification, we knew it was time to enhance the person expertise.
Image the next state of affairs (it’s doubtless not troublesome and all too relatable): You’re sharing your display with a buyer throughout a Webex assembly. It is advisable pull up a presentation saved on the community, however out of the blue notice you aren’t related to the VPN. You battle to make small discuss whereas attempting to recollect the password that you just simply modified because of the firm’s password rotation coverage. You in some way handle to do not forget that you saved the lengthy string of incorrigible characters on a post-it. Now you enter it and wait to carry out multi-factor authentication.
What if, as an alternative, you have been robotically signed into VPN with out having to verify a field or enter a password?
Enter passwordless VPN authentication!
Passwordless VPN authentication is certificate-based and deployed through Cisco’s System Administration suite, which is obtainable solely to Cisco staff. As soon as your machine is registered and also you begin a VPN session, your certificates robotically validates your credentials (for Window and Mac customers) and authorizes your community entry with out requiring you to do something. After you’ve efficiently related, a ultimate multi-factor verify ensures your machine is correctly managed earlier than permitting entry to the community.
With passwordless VPN authentication, Cisco IT permits a greater person expertise whereas enhancing safety with phishing resistant authentication.
In August 2022, Cisco IT started introducing certificate-based authentication along with the legacy, on-premise SSO resolution. Since then, roughly 53,000 distinctive customers have adopted certificate-based authentication – a quantity Cisco IT expects to rise as extra customers migrate to this cloud-based resolution.
With one click on to attach, vital time financial savings, and a safer expertise, passwordless VPN is a no brainer for Cisco staff.
Now, think about what you are able to do with all these further minutes! Keep tuned for extra safety bulletins within the subsequent months.
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