iStock Erosion of the traditional network perimeter and the transition to work-from-anywhere have conspired to bring an unprecedented threat level to endpoint devices, users, and applications, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told the online audience at the virtual RSA Conference 2021. Such threats are exacerbated by the fact that over 3,500 vendors offer security products and services that many customers patchwork together, creating complexity that makes it hard for many to build an effective security position, Robbins said. Against that backdrop, Cisco announced a number of security moves to further integrate and upgrade its own overarching offerings with new features and services. For example, the company added new device-inventory and endpoint-security features to its SecureX service that integrates myriad Cisco security components. Cisco describes it as an open, cloud-native system to detect and remediate threats across Cisco and third-party products from a single interface. The dashboard shows operational metrics, triggers alerts to emerging threats, and accelerates threat investigations and incident management by aggregating and correlating global intelligence and local context in one view.