SAFE
Simplify Security with SAFE
This overview of SAFE will show you how to map security capabilities to threats. (PDF – 6 MB)
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Learn How to Apply SAFE
The Cisco SAFE Champion podcast describes best practices in developing security solutions. (47 min)
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Easy-to-Use Security Reference Architecture
SAFE can help you simplify your security strategy and deployment. This Cisco security reference architecture features easy-to-use visual icons that help you design a secure infrastructure for the edge, branch, data center, campus, cloud, and WAN. The framework encompasses operational domains such as management, security intelligence, compliance, segmentation, threat defense, and secure services.
SAFE solutions have been deployed, tested, and validated at Cisco and provide guidance, best practices, and configuration steps.
Why complicate your security network design? Keep it simple with SAFE.
The SAFE Key
The SAFE Key organizes security by using two core concepts: Places in the Network (PINs) and Secure Domains.
PINs reference examples of locations that are found in networks and the infrastructure needed to create them:
- Data center
- Branch
- Campus
- WAN
- Internet edge
- Cloud
Secure Domains are operational areas used to protect these locations. They are security concepts that traverse an entire network:
- Management
- Security intelligence
- Compliance
- Segmentation
- Threat defense
- Secure services
How SAFE Works
This Interactive SAFE Poster shows you how the model works to protect your network.
The Latest in Thought Leadership
The SAFE blog brings you best practices in network security architecture and design.
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This reference architecture logically arranges capabilities to secure business workflows against threats.
- SAFE Secure Data Center Architecture Guide (PDF - 3.7 MB)
- SAFE Internet Edge Architecture Guide (PDF - 2.9 MB)
- SAFE Secure Branch Architecture Guide (PDF - 1.7 MB)
- SAFE Campus Architecture Guide (PDF - 2 MB)
- SAFE Secure Data Center Architecture Guide (PDF - 3.7 MB)
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SAFE design guides have been tested, validated, and deployed at Cisco. They provide best practices, configuration steps, and more.
SAFE Secure Data Center Design Guide - First Look – April 2018 (PDF - 1.9 MB)
SAFE Edge Remote Access VPN with DDoS Design Guide – September 2016 (PDF - 4.6 MB)
Ransomware Defense Design Guide – August 2017 (PDF - 6.2 MB)
IoT Threat Defense for Manufacturing SAFE Design Guide – May 2018 (PDF - 8.6 MB)
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Cisco security guides relate to specific PINs and Secure Domains in the SAFE framework.
Secure Internet Edge
- SAFE Edge Remote Access VPN with DDoS Design Guide (PDF - 4.6 MB)
Threat Defense
- Ransomware Defense Design Guide (PDF - 3.7 MB)
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SAFE Toolkit
The SAFE Toolkit includes the elements required to facilitate security discussions. You can use the items on these slides to build presentations using SAFE best-practice illustrations and diagrams. And you can customize the diagrams to suit your business.
- SAFE Security Architecture Toolkit - July 2018 (PDF - 5.5 MB)
