Cisco Launches New Umbrella Cloud Security Data Centres in South Africa

Cisco South Africa has launched two Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, offering local customers closer access to the cloud anytime, anywhere.

The company says through this announcement, customers in South Africa and in the region will have access to top notch cybersecurity protection without having to sacrifice performance.

Umbrella’s cloud security services such as DNS, Cloud-Delivered Firewall (CDFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Intrusion Protection and Detection Systems (IPS/IDS) and other data defence services are now available to customers looking to protect digital assets from malicious threats.

Cisco’s Garsen Naidu says South Africa is a key market for the company and this level of investment underscores our commitment to the region,” 

“Customers will also have complete visibility of online activities across their environments, users, and devices at all times.” Naidu says the upgrades to these edge data centres expands the company’s rapidly growing global network adding that due to the innovative global cloud architecture and anycast routing, most customers in these regions will automatically connect to the upgraded data centres.