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Give the gift of security resilience and receive instant savings from a secure choice enterprise agreement.
When it comes to the holidays, most thoughts turn towards shopping and spending time with friends and loved ones. In the business world, the holiday season often lands at the end of the quarter / fiscal year, and businesses start to make lists of things that need to be purchased in the coming years, and sometimes they find themselves wanting to purchase a gift – so to speak – for themselves.
The problem that many organizations face is that when it comes to purchasing products and services, balancing today’s needs and budget isn’t as easy as it sounds. Add to this the concern of unclear future security needs which can be stressful. But what if you could get exactly what you need, protect the budget and future-proof your investment at the same time?
We want to give a gift to you. That is right, you read that correctly. We want to make your holidays a little bit more special with the gift of security resilience. And we can offer that to you with instant savings.
Here are a few examples of how you can build the gift of security resilience that best fits your organization’s security needs today and is ready to grow with your tomorrow.
Provide edge to edge protection. Hold the first line of defense against cyberthreats for branch offices and remote users. Maintain the last line of defense, by protecting your endpoint devices with rapid incident detection, response, and remediation of advanced threats.
Provide protection for your users and devices with these essential Cisco Secure products.
Protect what matters, get cloud and application protection that secures internet access, safeguards cloud app usage, and identifies public cloud threats. Build out your cloud and application security with these essential Cisco Secure products.
Cisco Secure Zero Trust helps you transform your business with continuous verification of users and devices for secure access. These Cisco Secure products are part of the essential architecture towards building zero trust secure access.
Choose any of the two Cisco Secure products that you want to buy towards building out user and device security, cloud and application security, zero trust secure access, or any of our security solutions. You do not have to stop with two, you have the freedom to grow; add more, save more.
Cisco Secure products you can choose from:
Give the Gift of Security with a Cisco Secure Choice Enterprise Agreement
Choose, buy, and deploy Cisco Secure products through one easy-to-manage Cisco Secure Choice Enterprise Agreement; save more as you buy more for all of those on your holiday list. Protect your end users working remotely, in office only, or in a hybrid environment as with more devices on and off the network, cybersecurity risks are not slowing down anytime soon. Build the solution that best fits your organization through a single, flexible agreement that lets you pay annually, as you go, over 3 or 5 years, with 0% financing.
With Cisco’s Secure Choice Enterprise Agreements, you can add security resilience in 2023 and beyond, with exactly the security products and services you need, right when you need them the most.
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There were multiple times during my digital parenting journey when I would have loved to put my head in the sand. Pretend that life was easy and that my kids weren’t going to grow up and want devices and to join social media. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. With four kids who had technology running through their veins, I had no choice but to embrace it.
While many kids will first experience the internet from a family laptop or via their parent’s phone at a coffee shop (we’ve all done it), it’s when they get these devices into their hot little hands unsupervised a few years down the track that the real show starts. And that’s usually when they get access to a phone. Research from our eSafety Office shows that just under half of Aussie kids between 6 and 13 use a smartphone with about 1/3 owning their own device.
And while we can all wax lyrical about the good old days when we used payphones and how great it would be if our kids didn’t have smartphones, we need to keep it real. Technology is not going anywhere so the best thing we can to accept it’s here, educates our kids about how to use it safely and introduce boundaries and rules to ensure they are as safe as possible.
So, without further ado, let me introduce you to the concept of a family technology contract – a great way to manage your kids and their tech use.
I like to think of a tech agreement as a clear outline of your expectations of your kids’ digital behavior – any behavior that occurs while using a device should be included in the agreement and yes, include TV here too! Now, before we progress, I have to share one key tip – don’t even think of putting together an agreement like this when tensions are high, or a heated argument is still in place – it will never work. Only talk about this or start working on it when you are in a calm and serene headspace.
The most important thing is to have an agreement that is suitable for your kids’ ages and maturity and one that works for your family’s schedule. There’s no point making your 5-year-old sign an agreement that limits their time on Instagram when they’re probably quite happy visiting only the online sites that you have ‘bookmarked’ for them. And if your kids have a super busy schedule then you might want to include a rule that means there is no ‘leisure screen time’ (eg TV/movie viewing) till all homework is complete.
While it’s entirely based on your kids’ interests and tech usage, I think 3 is a good age to start with a basic agreement. That’s when they start understanding rules. And how old is too old for a tech contract, I hear you ask? Well, I acknowledge that introducing new rules and boundaries when your kids are well into their teens may be difficult however if things feel out of control and you are concerned about their mental health and less than ideal digital habits then it may also be exactly what you all need!
Keeping an agreement age-appropriate and relevant is essential. You may also want to keep it simple and focus on a few key things, such as:
But it can include so much more. Here are some items you may choose to include in your own personalized version. Think of this list as a shopping list. Simply, pick & choose what works for the ages of your kids and your family’s structure.
Online Behaviour
I understand that access to my devices is a privilege and breaking this agreement will lead to the following consequences: (list what you feel is appropriate)
I would have all parties sign and date the agreement: both parents and kids. You may choose to keep a copy on the fridge? Again, whatever works for your situation.
So, if you are feeling like this digital parenting thing is getting the better of you, please consider introducing an agreement. For decades, parenting experts have written about the virtues of establishing clear boundaries for our kids and in my opinion, a tailored family tech agreement absolutely does that!
Good luck!!
Alex x
The post Why You Need to Get a Family Technology Agreement Happening appeared first on McAfee Blog.
Find out how you can stretch your organization’s security budget amidst inflation and its economic impacts.
No one could have predicted the lasting effects of the pandemic on our economy. A strain has been put on the overall supply chain, causing the value of the dollar, or any other local currency, to not go as far as it once did. Consumers are experiencing skyrocketing energy, gas, and food prices, and businesses are facing delays in deliveries of goods and services to their customers.
According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the U.S. economy has seen an uptick as high as 8.5% over the past twelve months, which is the largest spike since the early 1980s. Ideally, the economy should be in a balance of about 2% inflation.
When inflation rates go up, there is a steady rise in costs, putting a heavy burden on individuals and businesses.
Even with the rise in inflation, the need for products and services are still there to keep organizations operational. Cybersecurity attacks do not fall under the radar with inflation. If anything, cost increases mean you might get less protection for the same amount of spend, making cyber threats against your organization riskier. Businesses are forced to make budget adjustments, but cybersecurity spend is crucial to maintain the integrity of customer data and finances. Many businesses will be forced to have to raise prices for goods and services, passing the higher cost on to their customers. The solutions needed to maintain security should be simple and flexible to buy in a complex world. Cisco believes in price protection, not passing on the burdens of inflation to our customer.
Cisco can help you with instant savings, avoiding inflation hikes with our price protection guarantee when it comes to buying security solutions to meet the security needs of your organization. With the significant shift in the way we work – remote work, office only, or hybrid, there are more devices on and off the network, leading to an increase in cybersecurity risks. Threats are not slowing down any time soon. Security needs to work together in a simple way to help you stay ahead of these threats to protect users everywhere, working from anywhere. Cisco Secure takes an integrated platform approach to radically simplify your security, applying intelligence to anticipate the changing needs of your business and provide the robust protection you need.
Whatever your organizational security needs may be, buying through the Cisco Secure Choice Enterprise Agreement allows you the flexibility to access two or more security products. Choose from network security, user & endpoint protection, cloud edge, or app security line of products.
Secure Choice Enterprise Agreements lets budgets go further and offers predictable billing over time so you can move faster in responding to security needs. Get a built-in security platform, SecureX, at no extra cost!
Cisco Secure products have never been simpler to buy. Add products, based on your specific security business goals, and receive additional discounts, up to 20% savings off list price. Start saving now with a Cisco Secure Enterprise Agreement.
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