Cisco Meraki Case Study

Cisco Meraki products are leader in cloud-managed and cloud-based solutions in the last decade. They provide a high level of security with the two-factor authentication method as well as out-of-band architecture (with HIPAA/PCI compliant). Besides, Cisco Meraki devices are trustworthy in terms of the reliability (99.99% on SLA) and the implemented Available Redundant Architecture. The various security tools to prevent from unusual outsider activities and security assurance regarding backup and storage, data mobility’s make Cisco Meraki taking the top place when we talk about cloud-based technologies. [55][83][84]
Cisco Meraki is a complete cloud managed networking solution. The centralized cloud management for security, networking and application …show more content…
Since Cisco Meraki is wisely based on Cloud for the storage and backup and cloud technology yet to mature, users will always seek for the assurance in their end product. In this section below, it will be presented what exactly the trust will come with the Cisco Meraki products. In the following bullet points are shown the main characteristics of CISCO Meraki’s. Only to put a strong point CISCO Meraki have daily penetration testing by an independent 3rd parties to cover the chance to be hacked. Below is the list of highlights that were already introduces as possible advantages from the Cloud Systems in chapter 2.7: …show more content…
It is also called “out-of-band” in the sense of splitting the user traffic from management data. More precisely, no user traffic passes through CISCO Meraki’s datacentres instead it goes straight to its destination on LAN/WAN. Some of the biggest advantages of “out-of-band” area that provides scalability, reliability and security of the separated communication channel. Basically means the user traffic is separated from the management data (log files). No data send directly to cloud – only small log file (less than 4kb) stored there and synced immediately even with low bandwidth capacity.