With enterprises increasingly moving to adopt consumerisation measures, Cisco believes that the need for strong identity management systems is greater than ever.
The company said that as firms adopt the bring your own device (BYOD) hardware system, the ability to manage and handle users through identity profiles and policies will play a key role in maintaining network security.
Dave Frampton, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s secure access and mobility product group, told V3 that because of their personal nature of BYOD, a traditional approach of installing and managing the hardware itself is difficult.
Instead, he believes that administrators should enforce policy and profile controls which allow the user to log in from multiple devices and access the network based on pre-assigned privileges and policies.