White Paper Abstract:
This white paper discusses that cisco has developed a bold new architecture to meet the needs of borderless networks, allowing organizations large and small to collaborate easily, and their new workforce to roam freely, with confidence. This architecture allows for more effective, higher-level policy creation and enforcement. Since it uses a broad array of parameters for policy, it allows for much more effective security and enables situational awareness. Instead of a great many complex firewall rules, security policy can now be based on context, such as "the VP of sales can access the global sales forecast, but if she is seeking access through a smartphone in China using a strange protocol, and meanwhile she already authenticated herself through the main campus in California two hours ago, this connection is invalid."