Cisco Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client v2.x Data Sheet

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Data Sheet

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client

Easy to use. Highly secure. This is why the Cisco AnyConnect

Secure Mobility Client

is so popular around the world. And customers know that with each new release,
AnyConnect consistently raises the bar for remote-access across a broad set of PCs
and mobile devices.

Product Overview

As mobile workers roam to different locations, an always-on intelligent VPN helps AnyConnect client devices to

automatically select the optimal network access point and adapt its tunneling protocol to the most efficient method.

That may include Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol for latency-sensitive traffic, voice over IP

(VoIP) traffic, or TCP-based application access. Tunneling support is also available for IP Security Internet Key

Exchange version 2 (IPsec IKEv2). Select application VPN access may be enforced on Apple iOS, Google Android

(5.0 and later) and Samsung KNOX with the per-app VPN feature in Release 4.x.

AnyConnect 4.x supports robust unified endpoint compliance. It protects the integrity of the corporate network by

restricting VPN access terminating at the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, based on

an endpoint’s security

posture. Endpoint posture assessment and remediation across wired and wireless environments validate the status

of various antivirus, personal firewall, and antispyware products. Out-of-compliance endpoint enforcement provides

options to remediate and implement additional system checks before access is granted.

The AnyConnect Secure Mobility solution has built-in web security, malware threat defense, phishing protection

and command and control callback blocking on top of remote access for a comprehensive and highly secure

enterprise mobility solution. For web security, choose either the premises-based Cisco Web Security Appliance or

cloud-based Cisco Cloud Web Security for reliable and highly secure employee access to corporate resources and

cloud protection services. For protection when the VPN is off, Cisco Umbrella Roaming is a cloud-delivered

security service that protects devices anywhere against malware, phishing, and command and control callbacks.

With the Network Visibility module on Windows and Mac OS X platforms, administrators can monitor endpoint

application usage to uncover potential behavior anomalies and to make more informed network-design decisions.

Usage data can be shared with a growing number of Internet Protocol Flow Information Export (IPFIX)-capable

network-analysis tools.

With its Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) Enabler, AnyConnect can assist with the deployment of Cisco

AMP for Endpoints. This capability significantly expands endpoint threat protection to VPN-enabled endpoints or

wherever AnyConnect services are in use (for 802.1X network access, posture, etc.). And it further reduces the

potential of an attack from enterprise-connected hosts. Cisco AMP for Endpoints is licensed separately from

AnyConnect.

In addition to industry-leading VPN capabilities, the AnyConnect mobility client helps enable IEEE 802.1X

capability, providing a single authentication framework to manage user and device identity, as well as the network-

access protocols required to move smoothly from wired to wireless networks.