Cisco’s security business is booming for channel partners as 2016 comes to a close, with many partners reporting triple-digit growth in Cisco Security revenues this year.
“Our Cisco security sales and managed services were up 100 to 200 percent in 2016. It’s definitely beyond hypergrowth right now,” said Ben Johnson, CEO of Griffin, Ga.-based Liberty Tech. “With Cisco’s security architecture – the cloud with OpenDNS, now Umbrella, AMP (Advanced Malware Protection) built into everything including the Meraki MX and AMP for Endpoints – Cisco’s really enabling managed security service providers to build a simple-to-manage and highly, highly effective security architecture. We’re actively rolling that out now to all of our managed services clients … it’s the simplest security pitch that I have seen from any vendor, ever.”
