Cisco Security Review: How an MSP Protects 160 Customers with Cisco Security
In this PeerSpot review, Emile Stam, Chief Commercial Officer at Open Line, explains how his organization uses Cisco security technologies to protect more than 160 customers across healthcare, local government, and social housing in the Netherlands.
Open Line integrates multiple Cisco security solutions into its managed services, including firewalls, endpoint protection, networking security, and the SecureX platform. According to Stam, the strength of Cisco’s ecosystem comes from its deep integration across infrastructure layers, allowing security, networking, and compute to operate as a unified stack.
He highlights behavioral analytics in Cisco’s endpoint security (formerly AMP) as particularly valuable for proactively identifying zero-day threats. The integration of Cisco Talos threat intelligence and automation capabilities in SecureX also helps the team detect and respond to threats faster while reducing manual analysis work.
For managed service providers supporting highly regulated industries, Stam emphasizes that security should be embedded into services in a way that customers often don’t see directly, but benefit from every day. Cisco’s platform allows Open Line to provide layered protection while maintaining operational efficiency across a large and diverse customer base.
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Transcript Summary
Emile Stam, Chief Commercial Officer at Open Line, describes how the company uses Cisco security solutions as a core part of its managed cloud and security services for approximately 160 customers.
Open Line integrates a wide range of Cisco technologies including firewalls, IronPort email security, networking products with embedded security, endpoint protection, and the SecureX platform. These tools help the organization provide layered protection across technical infrastructure, applications, and user behavior.
Stam notes that Cisco’s endpoint protection capabilities stand out due to behavioral analytics that help detect and respond to zero-day threats. He also highlights the value of Cisco Talos threat intelligence and SecureX automation, which allow the security team to analyze threats more quickly and reduce the amount of manual log analysis required.
From a business perspective, Open Line benefits from the tight integration across Cisco’s infrastructure stack. By using Cisco for networking, compute, and security, the company can simplify operations and reduce the number of interfaces between different vendors.
Stam rates Cisco security solutions between a seven and eight out of ten overall, noting strong technical capabilities and growing improvements in newer firewall models. He emphasizes that organizations implementing security platforms should approach deployment not just as a technical project but as a risk-management initiative that requires communication with customers and operational planning.