Tech Cisco and Mahindra have increased their collaboration to create a next-generation AI-powered firewall to address the growing number of security breaches that businesses encounter.
In order to provide their shared clients with a next-generation firewall (NGFW) solution driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, Tech Mahindra and Cisco have announced an expansion of their relationship.
Cisco’s basic firewall capabilities will be enhanced by the tech giant and IT consulting alliance with cutting-edge features like unified policy administration for both on-premises and cloud environments.
Furthermore, it incorporates Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies to offer complete malware defense for both network and endpoints.
According to Tech Mahindra’s Chief Digital Services Officer Kunal Purohit, “firewalls are essential to an organization’s network security, but they can be time-consuming, complex, and expensive to deploy, manage, and operate.” “The partnership with Cisco marks a milestone in providing a unique, robust, efficient, and cost-effective solution for the firewall modernisation roadmap.”
As customers throughout the world continue to modernize their infrastructure, Nick Holden, Vice President of Global and Strategic Partners & Ecosystem Co-Sell at Cisco, emphasized the significance of a scalable next-generation firewall solution.
“Our partnership with Tech Mahindra offers these customers a specialised way to customise and implement these firewall capabilities based on their unique business and network needs,” Holden stated.
harm from data breaches
This declaration is made at a time when, in the digital age, businesses all around the world are growing increasingly concerned about the cost of data breaches.
The average price of a data breach hit a record high of $4.35 million in 2023.
These expenses cover a wide range of expenses, including as technical, legal, and regulatory tasks; they also include brand equity loss, customer attrition, and decreased employee productivity.
AI in protection
Because AI solutions can quickly and effectively identify dangers, they are being used more and more to prevent data breaches.
By integrating machine learning algorithms into firewalls, artificial intelligence (AI) can improve conventional systems by recognizing possible risks, responding to novel attack vectors, and analyzing large volumes of data in real-time.
This proactive strategy lessens the chance of successful breaches and lessens the impact of any incidents that do occur by enabling more effective threat identification and response.
Because of its adaptable design, the NGFW can quickly adjust to the constantly shifting needs of network infrastructures and security threats. It can be deployed in several ways using different hardware, software, and virtual alternatives.
Across apps, devices, users, and multi-cloud networks, Cisco’s Secure Firewall offers comprehensive visibility and strong defense against a variety of threats, such as malware, known and unknown exploits, and web-based attacks.
Tech Mahindra’s expertise in AI
Tech Mahindra has a long record of developing cutting-edge solutions, such as network services, cloud and infrastructure services, AI and analytics, with well-known tech clients.
The multinational has been aggressively forming alliances to hasten the use of AI across a range of businesses. They worked with Google to provide a GenAI-powered email solution for contact centers, Anyverse to streamline the use of synthetic data, and Atento to provide AI-driven business solutions aimed at improving customer experience in the automobile industry.
