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More and more, employees wish to work on corporate laptops as well as personal mobile devices from anywhere. With the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client (Figure 1), you can empower your employees to do this and still provide the security necessary to help ensure that
your organization is safe and protected. Cisco AnyConnect is a unified security endpoint agent that delivers multiple security services to protect the enterprise. It also provides the visibility and the control you need to identify who and which devices are accessing the extended enterprise.
Cisco AnyConnect wide range of security services include functions such remote access, posture enforcement, web security features, and roaming protection. Cisco AnyConnect gives your IT department all the security features necessary to provide a robust, user-friendly, and highly secure mobile experience.
Features and Benefits
The industry-leading AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client is a modular endpoint software product. It not only provides VPN access through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IPsec IKEv2 but also offers enhanced security through various built-in modules. These modules provide services such
as compliance through the VPN with ASA or through wired, wireless, and VPN with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), web security along side Cisco Cloud Web Security, network visibility into endpoint flows within Stealthwatch, or off-network roaming protection with Cisco Umbrella.
AnyConnect clients are available across a broad set of platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone/Mobile, BlackBerry, and ChromeOS.

 Traditional “defense in depth” architectures typically force organizations to buy multiple security solutions — such as firewalls, VPN gateways, web filters, and other appliances — from different vendors. This approach increases complexity, as the products don’t always work well together. The lack of unified protection creates multiple blind spots. Attackers exploit these gaps, leaving organizations vulnerable and too often unaware of threats and attacks. Enterprises usually need to hire several dedicated teams to install and manage these disconnected security solutions. These security teams try to compensate for gaps in visibility and threat protection with manual processes that are inefficient, unreliable, and costly. This environment prevents rapid responses to the fast-changing threat landscape.

With Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services, you consolidate multiple security layers in a single platform, eliminating the cost of buying and managing multiple solutions. This integrated approach combines best-in-class security technology with multilayer protection integrated in a single device that’s less costly than piecemeal security solutions. You also get much greater visibility into what’s going on in your network, far beyond what’s available with traditional solutions. With full contextual awareness you will see all the resources you are charged with protecting. Blinds spots that are avenues for exploit are eliminated. Full visibility lets you better detect and prioritize threats based on their risk. Their possible impact is assessed and prioritized by an automated system. Meanwhile, the number of events associated with monitoring and response is reduced. The time between detection and cure quickly shrinks in a streamlined operation.