Cisco Software-Defined Access
A more secure and agile network for your modern enterprise
Your IT operations can be more efficient, your network more secure, and your user experience more consistent across wired and wireless infrastructure with our advanced solution for automating user policy and network access. Cisco SD-Access, a solution within Cisco DNA, defines a uniform policy-based wired and wireless network fabric that meets business needs with security, automation, and assurance.
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A renewed focus on business resilience
Our world is facing an acceleration in the frequency, diversity, and impact of disruptions. Planning your network to help your organization respond to the unexpected is now more important than ever.
Features and benefits
SD-Access augments the Cisco DNA Center capabilities of automation and assurance. It also provides a software-defined approach for network segmentation, critical for establishing a zero-trust network. With the SD-Access fabric, you can:
Enhance visibility
Use advanced analytics for endpoint identification and compliance. Employ AI and ML techniques to classify endpoints into logical groups.
Leverage policy analytics
Analyze traffic flows between groups and define group-based access policies. Use a simple GUI to author and enforce policies.
Segment to secure
Automatically set up network devices for two-level segmentation for zero-trust security and regulatory compliance.
Extend policies
Utilize Cisco intent-based networking (IBN) multidomain architecture for consistent access and security-policy enforcement throughout the enterprise.
Components of SD-Access
Wireless
Optimize, personalize, and secure your wireless network.
Switches
Get a single fabric to help simplify and secure your digital-ready network.
Routers
Provide access to applications, services, and integrated technologies.
Cisco DNA Center
Manage SD-Access across the entire network with a central dashboard.
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Simplify delivery of intent-based policy for users and devices​.
Cisco DNA software
Make it easier to buy, manage, and upgrade your network and infrastructure software.
Services
Explore the services we offer for switches, routers, and wireless.
Cisco DevNet
Extend automation across the enterprise with open APIs​.
Enjoy flexibility with Cisco DNA software subscriptions
Choose from three subscription tiers: Cisco DNA Essentials, Cisco DNA Advantage, and Cisco DNA Premier. Our flexible software suites are designed to address your automation and segmentation requirements with rich security.
New Cisco DNA Center software release
Now make your network faster, more secure, and more usable. Identify endpoints and visualize traffic flows to define access policies, give users more control, and get ready to tap the power of Wi-Fi 6.
Group-based policy simplifies network segmentation
Visualize, define, enforce: See how SD-Access makes securing your workplace a simple three-step process.​
See what Cisco customers say
"For borderless collaboration between employees and executives, it was important to secure the mobile working environment and provide flexible but flawless security. We placed our trust in Cisco as a driver of new technological advancements for ever-more sophisticated network infrastructure."
Sungwoo Hong, CIO, KB Securities
"The increased visibility of our network using Cisco DNA Assurance and Cisco SD-Access with ISE also means that we can spot problems more easily, which allows us to provide service to our customers that'’s better and faster than ever before."
Christian Kettmann, CIO, CFL – (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois)
"This software-based solution opens up new possibilities. The network knows how people work, and this way, service can be more efficient."
Ester Manzano Peláez, Director-General of Digital Administration, Government of Catalonia
"With Cisco DNA, configuration updates that required 3 days of planning and execution are now done within minutes, and policy changes happen essentially in an instant."
Mr. Lee, IT Senior Manager, Kolmar Korea
"Our startup companies appreciate the security and mobility the network provides, and I get actionable insights on devices and users on the network that help me run the network more efficiently."
Dr. Aidan McGrath, IT Manager, Waterford Institute of Technology
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