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Cisco's SSE Rollout Shows The Real Work Behind Zero Trust
Cisco shared lessons from its internal Security Service Edge deployment, where it moved from a fragmented, hardware-heavy VPN/security infrastructure to a unified cloud-delivered SSE model. The rollout reduced help desk cases by 18%, eliminated 20+ legacy VPN options, expanded certificate-based Zero Trust Access, and added GenAI traffic inspection for DLP, with Cisco framing the lesson as less “rip and replace” and more phased migration across IT, security, networking, and business teams.
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